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Swedish government is unnecessarily expensive, the country's economic authority accused

Thursday, 02 May 2013

The Swedish government has been accused of being too big and too expensive. It is determined that the government could save some Skr200-Skr300 million annually if proper management was instituted in the way its evolve its operation with changing times.

Inner Stockholm has become too expensive as the city grows and it is believed that the government has the flexibility to adjust than private companies since the government is more administrative than private companies that really produce the resources needed to run the government.

Thus if the government starts competing for space with the private sector in the centre of Stockholm, the government will only end up loosing. To be efficient in managing tax payers money, the government should reduce its size and should move its operation to the fringe of the city which is cheaper, the Swedish Financial Management Authority, known in Swedish as Ekonomistyrningsverket said.

Their survey shows that about 70 percent of the centrally located authorities can not imagine moving to a more peripheral area.

All the government agencies that operate from very expensive premises in central Stockholm, if they were to be relocated to cheaper peripheral locations, that alone would be area where the government would make very massive savings.

Two thirds of the government agencies operate from facilities in the Stockholm municipality located in the central region. This area has become more expensive thus if they moved outside the inner city, where things such as rents, parking and spaces etc., are cheaper, that would lead to saving of some Skr200 million a year, the Swedish Financial Management Authority said.

The government agencies could also reduce their office space size by ten percent and that would lead to a savings of about Skr 300 million annually.

By Scancomark.com Team

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