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In the debate, David Cameron claimed that the NICs increase is a "tax on jobs" and that the Conservatives can save enough to avoid having to raise NICs by making further efficiency savings in the public sector.
The idea that the NHS funding crisis could be solved with further efficiency savings was a myth, she said.
Our research also highlights how difficult it will be for local authorities to find further efficiency savings behind the frontline.
There will be further efficiency savings, along the lines of the £5bn new savings, and there are plenty of policy candidates for the chop across government.
Denham expects £340m to come from administrative cuts in eight further education quangos, including the LSC, the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority and Ofsted, and further "efficiency savings".
This forms part of the plans for further efficiency savings, totalling £12bn over the next year, that he has prepared for the Conservative Party in the run-up to next month's general election.
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It intends to make a further £100m efficiency savings in IT though better working with contractors.
Darling announced a further £5bn in efficiency savings, including cuts in residential care, prisons and the science budget.
The Treasury did secure £1 billion ($1.64 billion) of cuts from the defence budget last year, and the MOD now has to find a further 3% in efficiency savings.
Now into the third year of austerity, many public managers have come to accept as the new norm that every year there will be further cuts, more efficiency savings and more hived-off services.
There was an outcry from vice-chancellors, students, lecturers and opposition MPs, and the Russell Group of research-intensive universities did a fast calculation, adding in some other cuts already announced (£600m in the pre-Budget report, plus a further £180m of "efficiency savings, for example), and came up with the figure of £900m.
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