Councils have been urged to tighten financial reporting to maximise savings from shared services. MPs on the Commons public accounts committee warned unless action was taken efficiency saving targets would not be met. They called for the CLG to publish an overview with analysis of costs by corporate function, and performance against benchmarks. Committee chairman, Edward Leigh, said: ‘Whether or not public bodies move to shared services, they must know whether they are receiving value for money from their corporate functions.'
