This may include merging services to reduce duplication and drive out needless cost.
Merging services - by setting up new regional agencies - to speed up adoptions.
They mostly have to do with lowering taxes through thriftiness — sharing costs and merging services among government agencies to gain efficiency and eliminate redundancies.
He cited Hammersmith & Fulham and Westminster, which had saved the taxpayer £100m by merging services, such as education, and other councils that were sharing a chief executive.
"While we won't rule anything out at this stage, we expect to focus quite quickly on a few major areas where sharing and merging services is viable and good for the public".
If Officials Won't Share, Let Voters Make Them To the Editor: "Getting a Handle on Taxes" (editorial, Dec. 9) encourages governments to seek additional ways to reduce taxes, for example by sharing costs and merging services.
Elsewhere in Wales, Pembrokeshire council is to start talks about merging services with a neighbouring authority.
They instead supported the idea of merging services with other NHS trusts.
The review states: "Despite this there has been a reluctance by local authorities to consider joint appointments of directors of education services and/or merging services.
Taunton Deane councillors have voted in favour of continuing to look into merging services with a neighbouring authority threatened by bankruptcy.
