-S-E-V-E-N-T-E-E-N- existing Tory spending cuts

Over on his blog John Redwood has listed seventeen EXISTING Tory spending cuts:

1. ID cards and the National Identity database
2. New centralised NHS computing schemes
3. Regional assemblies
4. Regional Planning quangos
5. Reduction in the number of Special Advisers
6. Reduction in the number of MPs
7. Reduction in size of civil service through natural wastage
8. Reduction in Tax Credits to higher earners
9. Reform of welfare payments to put more people into work and off benefit
10. Cuts in government advertising budgets
11. Cuts in government purchasing of consultancy services - £4 billion of contracts currently out to tender
12. Cuts in MP expenses by reducing the number of items they can claim for
13. Removal of Learning and Skills Council bureaucracy
14. Removal of £1 billion plus overhead monitoring and interfering with local government from Whitehall
15. Accelerated sale of assets
16. Greater role for private finance in housing
17. Make future public sector pensions more affordable for taxpayers...

Has Mr Redwood missed any?