The Standards Board for England is the body that keeps an eye on the behaviour of elected councillors, as if local papers, councillors of other parties and the electorate were incapable of doing this. You can read all about the Standards Board for England here.
In 2007/8 they spent £10.8 million employing 104 people to police councillors. In 2007/8 they received 3,547 allegations of misbehaviour but at the other end of the sausage machine only nine councillors were actually sanctioned. Indeed only 14% of all the cases that they see even warrant investigation. To spend more than a million Pounds a head to discipline people who have already been lampooned by their local papers, disciplined by their own councils, dealt with by the police and courts and not reselected to stand by their parties seems like a total waste of money. Our proposal is to simply dismantle the whole thing.
Saving id: Standards Board for England
Area: DCLG
Total saving: £11 million
Traffic light status: TBD
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Previous idea for saving: (7) No more UK aid to India
