Like many people, I can get annoyed about money being wasted in the public sector. However I do not always agree with other people about what actually constitutes a waste of money. Check out this link regarding a report by The TaxPayers’ Alliance.
I will agree that a lot of the things they list do seem hard to justify, such as the motivational magician and the biscuits. Nevertheless there are some things there which might be reasonable. For example, light bulbs do not normally cost £22, but maybe occasionally the government needs an unusual light bulb which costs more than is normal.
Wherever anyone is allowed to spend public money, there will almost always be some waste. Things will be bought which turn out to be unusable, money will be lost through fraud or theft, projects will go over budget, and so on.
The best advice I can give to anyone wanting to reduce waste in the public sector is to try to remove certain areas of expenditure altogether. For example, bringing the troops home from Afghanistan, abolishing overseas "aid", and taking the UK out of the EU and the Council of Europe will save many billions of pounds every year.
Abolishing "aid" would not only save the money spent, but would also allow the government to sack the civil servants whose job it is to oversee that area of expenditure. Fewer civil servants would result in a lower salary bill for the civil service, and might even result in a few quid less being spent each year on biscuits.
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