Spending Reviews and Evaluation in The Netherlands: A Trojan Horse looking for Fiscal Space?

Description

Spending Reviews and Evaluation in The Netherlands: A Trojan Horse looking for Fiscal Space? • Constitutional and institutional characteristics of the Netherlands and contrasts with UK (e.g. weak centre of government, fiscal targets as part of coalition government agreement, high degree of autonomy of ministries and agencies) • Evolvement of spending reviews since their emergence in the early 1980s • Balancing ownership of proposals and independent scrutiny (composition spending review committees, rules, selection of topics) • Political and bureaucratic take-up of the results of spending reviews and evaluations (adoption of savings proposals by government, using saving proposals as ‘weapon arsenal’ for the Ministry of Finance) • Strengths and weaknesses of spending reviews amidst other tools for promoting value for money or create fiscal space

Period	4 Oct 2019
Event title	Comparative Workshop on Fiscal Institutions
Event type	Other
Location	Nuffield College, Oxford UniversityShow on map