The way ahead?

Thursday 2nd March 2006, 12:00AM GMT.

A FIVE-YEAR Strategic Plan for States policy that calls for reinvestment in the Island’s economic future and social fabric has been unveiled by the Council of Ministers.

The document – the first major policy initiative of the ministerial era – binds together policies on tax, immigration and economic growth agreed last year but says that no further saving targets should be set for the States.

Instead, the strategy proposes that £20m in efficiency savings should be ploughed back into core health and education services, and that millions should be spent to bring housing stock up to UK ‘decent homes standard’ over the next decade, as well as to repair the Island’s neglected roads and sewers.

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