Billions spent on 'vague' schemes

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2011&sol;01&sol;billions-spent-on-vague-schemes&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full" title&equals;"Whitehall needs to trim down its least effective prorgammes&comma; a report warns" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2011&sol;01&sol;min-billions-spent-on-vague-schemes&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Whitehall needs to trim down its least effective prorgammes&comma; a report warns"&sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Billions of pounds of taxpayers&&num;8217&semi; money are committed to spending schemes on the basis of &&num;8220&semi;vague hopes&&num;8221&semi; of improving people&&num;8217&semi;s lives&comma; rather than solid evidence that the plans will work&comma; a report has warned&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The report&comma; from the Centre for Social Justice thinktank&comma; called for a &&num;8220&semi;fundamental shake-up&&num;8221&semi; of the way that Whitehall spends public money to eliminate waste and boost results&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And it warned that&comma; without a change of culture&comma; the current £81 billion round of spending cuts could leave wasteful programmes in place&comma; while shutting down ones which are valued by the public&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The report &&num;8211&semi; entitled Outcome-Based Government &&num;8211&semi; called for the establishment of an independent Office of Spending Effectiveness to scrutinise Government programmes to see whether they are delivering the required results and good value for money&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For decades&comma; 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