Congratulations to our client: Hammersmith & Fulham
7 December 2007
TAS is sending a congratulatory letter to the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham for their achievement in reducing Council Tax by 3% for the second year in a row, as a result of a determined focus on achieving efficiency savings.
TAS is pleased to have made a significant contribution to this process through its work for the Council on reviewing and rescheduling home to school and social care transport arrangements, delivering better quality services at reduced cost.
Hammersmith and Fulham’s Assistant Director of Resources, Andy Rennison said “By the time the work TAS is doing is completed, the annual efficiencies we are expecting to achieve through these improved working practices should exceed £750,000 per year.”
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For further information, contact John Taylor, telephone 01772 204988
Notes to editors
- TAS was founded in 1989 and has grown to be the UK's leading specialist public transport consultancy, with a current turnover in excess of £1.5m a year and over 25 full-time staff. Our client base includes the major UK transport groups, Department for Transport, Scottish Executive, Welsh Assembly, Northern Ireland Government, Passenger Transport Executives and local authorities throughout the country.
- For full information on Hammersmith & Fulham’s achievement, see their Press Release .
- TAS has developed a clean sheet review approach for local authority transport using professional bus scheduling techniques, which regularly results in annual savings exceeding £100,000 and often several times this. In the neighbouring authority of the London Borough of Ealing, for example, savings exceeded £600,000 and Ealing’s Assistant Director of Finance – Individuals, Simon George said “As well as achieving these major savings, TAS has enabled us to introduce significant quality improvements to our services.”