Outsourcing and polls out

THE regional government’s 2013 budget will limit personal advisers and banish the surveys that were previously conducted every three months.

Alberto Fabra and his presidential predecessors have consistently batted away questions from opposition parties regarding their cost and refuted accusations that they governed by opinion poll. Next year’s budget aims to reduce spending on outsourcing by 9 per cent, with a cut down on research and development, IT contracts, study groups, management consulting as well as staff procurement.

In future these services can be contracted only in exceptional services, according to a clause in next year’s budget, and they will first require authorisation by Administration lawyers.