Mr Keen has spent several months looking at States budgets and accounts, after volunteering for the task as part of the JEP’s Public Purse campaign aimed at identifying public sector savings. And he says that without addressing the staff costs that make up half of annual public spending, the States are not honestly facing up to reducing costs. Ending the policy of no compulsory redundancies and giving low-paid workers annual pay rises at the RPI level but sticking to lump cash-based rises for higher-paid workers are among his suggestions.
