Unions have warned that proposals for efficiency savings have left the health service in crisis.
The Department of Health said local authorities must play their part in finding efficiency savings.
When officials realise that the hoped-for efficiency savings will not materialise, they back down.
Nottinghamshire County Council has defended itself after criticism that its efficiency savings programme is affecting frontline services.
This has significant cost implications for the NHS at a time when we have to make efficiency savings.
Mr Heaton said the huge increase would be achieved through efficiency savings and better use of police property.
The last Labour government attempted to release efficiency savings by creating a network of regional fire control rooms.
Ms Baillie insisted these were cuts not efficiency savings, as the savings were assumed in this year's budget.
But many unions, of course, see "efficiency savings" as code for attacking staff.
It means losing the big efficiency savings that most electricity privatisations have generated.
The Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency faces efficiency savings - and its long-term future will be decided later this year.
It is inconceivable that there isn't some room within that huge sum of money to make some further efficiency savings.
If this benefit is greater than a plausible estimate of the efficiency savings from the merger, then it should be halted.
Sellafield managers made a final offer of a guaranteed 2% pay rise with a further 2% bonus funded by efficiency savings.
Although these big businesses can make efficiency savings, they too are struggling to overcome the effect on exports of sterling's strength.
Council leader John Beesley called the criticisms "nonsense" and said efficiency savings and successful grant applications had helped make the reduction possible.
MPs and councillors have opposed potential cuts to BBC Oxford's TV news service as the corporation considers ways to make efficiency savings.
Ellen Broome, director of policy at the Children's Society, said pilot schemes had prioritised assessing efficiency savings rather than the safeguarding of children.
Scottish Conservative MSP Murdo Fraser said the efficiency savings were necessary, but he said it was vital that public sector pay-offs were not too generous.
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It is aiming for efficiency savings of 20% over this period.
The commission accepted that the merger would yield some efficiency savings.
Three-quarters of these said they were facing difficulties in funding services for people with learning disabilities, and were making cuts or what they called "efficiency savings".
The Tories, however, insist this is not true and that they would be able to fund the tax cuts by efficiency savings and tackling benefit fraud.
Layers of management have been removed, doctors and nurses are now in charge of their own departments and efficiency savings are being made, the company said.
From my experiences I can guarantee that this will identify efficiency savings that will not only reduce costs but will also improve the collection of arrears.
"We are going to try and do everything we can to protect front line services, " he said, adding that the authority was already looking at efficiency savings.
While the efficiency savings this process brings are obvious, Tarmac also believes that dismantling old planes will allow engineers to better design more efficient aircraft in the future.
Nick Ramsay AM, finance spokesperson for the Welsh Conservatives, had concerns that there would be a budgetary shortfall should the NHS fail to make the assumed efficiency savings.
Any efficiency savings must not impact adversely on patient care.
The potential efficiency savings from such projects are immense, says Neal Elliott, an expert on combined heat and power (CHP) systems with the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy.
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