Gershon also said that, if elected, the party should negotiate significant reductions in costs from suppliers, and should minimise the use of advertising, lawyers, external contractors and consultants.
The use of external agencies such as Triple Line Consulting, a London-based contractor that reportedly made £1.9m in the 12 months to October 2012 for assessing applications to DfID's global poverty action fund, has been a focal point for such misgivings.
Brown, owner of freelance software and learning tools company Nextpoint, and officially the north-west's coolest techie, says: "When the economy crashed, a lot of companies cancelled projects and avoided using external contractors to reduce their costs.
The decision to restrict the use of external consultants has increased the workload for the Civil Service.
Instead of the official approach of hiring expensive external contractors who deliver poor results, community partnerships have proven to be much more effective at fixing the systems.
MPs said their concerns about DfiD's use of contractors and other external partners were compounded by the lack of publically available information on UK aid-funded contracts.
MPs on the international development select committee said their concerns about DfID's use of contractors and other external partners were compounded by the lack of publicly available information on UK aid-funded contracts.
This self-sufficiency removed a great deal of corruption, from external contractors producing inferior goods that jeopardised sailors' lives, to the corruption that arose from poorly paid officials responsible for awarding contracts and the bribes that might ensue.
Instead it assembles a tiny team of scientists and executives to oversee the research on a promising new line of treatment, outsourcing the bulk of the work to external contractors.
Over the past decade, due to U.S. military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan the Pentagon has both proactively and often to external pressure from Congress and public pressure, more greatly regulated its use of private contractors, whether those doing logistics or security work.
