Conservative Transparency Plan

"Open Book"

Billions are wasted each year on pointless bureaucracy and failed projects that do nothing to improve the lives of the taxpayers who foot the bill. The explosion of unaccountable quangos, public sector ‘non-jobs’ and costly bureaucracy is an indictment of Labour’s reckless approach to spending other people’s money.

We need change and a Conservative government that will do more for less. That means transforming the way the state goes about its business, using decentralisation, accountability and transparency to reduce dramatically the cost of government. And because sunlight is the best disinfectant, we will bring the operation of government out into the open so that everyone can see whether we are delivering good value for money.  A Conservative government will:

• Put all national government spending items over £25,000 online.
• Put online the salaries and expenses of the 35,000 most senior civil servants.

• Abolish any quangos that do not: perform a technical function; perform a function that requires political impartiality; or act independently to establish facts.

• Open up government data and publish datasets in full and online.

• Call a moratorium on the creation of new Information Computer Technology (ICT) projects; no ICT project will be commissioned without first seeing if it can be done for free or at very low cost.

To read our Transparency Plan, please click here.