BUCKINGHAMSHIRE County Council is the seventh best of the 34 counties in England for finding efficiency savings, according to a recent survey.
Stringent efforts to find savings without cutting services, when the current budget was in the planning stages last year saved £8.36million the equivalent of a 5.6 per cent rise on council tax.
The survey was carried out by the weekly Local Government Chronicle, and is based on annual efficiency savings projected by councils around the country.
Council leader David Shakespeare said the council always tried to be effic- ient. Money spent on technology was helping to cut administration and buying costs.
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