Outsourcing at former TTS saves close to £1m

Thursday 22 December 2016

Outsourcing the States Cleaning, and Parks and Gardens services has seen a cut in 100 jobs and a saving of almost £1m.

In 2014 – before cuts were introduced - the States Parks and Gardens Department spent just over £2m on staff, equipment, materials and contractors. Figures for this year show that’s been cut to just over £1.5m – a saving of almost £0.5m.

Figures for cleaning costs are almost as dramatic. They’ve come down from £1.75m in 2014, to just under £1.5m this year, a reduction of almost £0.25m.

The information has been released in response to a request unto the Freedom of Information law. 

The savings are part of a long-term States policy to cut public spending. Although welcomed by many, the policy has come in for strong criticism from other quarters in particular unions and political party Reform.

A number of projets lodged by Deputy Geoff Southern to slow down the pace of outsourcing and to give workers more rights have on the whole been rejected by the States.