Does the Government have much of an idea the outcome of spending 40% of the national income? Well the answer is not very much, sadly.
Graham Allen, the Nottingham Member, brought together a small group in the cabinet office today. There we met Steve Aos, who runs for Washington State, USA, a research unit that tries to answer the question of how to spend public money to best effect. It was an impressive display.
I could not but help wondering whether we were not missing the obvious....