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The head of a public spending watchdog is to step down, it was
announced today.
Steve Bundred will quit as chief executive of the Audit Commission
in the first half of next year after more than six years in the
job.
Mr Bundred has been outspoken in his role as scrutineer of the
billions of pounds spent on local public services.
This summer he called for a public sector pay freeze as a "pain
free" contribution to a a £50 billion package of spending
cuts and tax rises to cut national debt.
"This feels a practicable moment for the chairman and the board to
move to appoint a successor in time to begin responding to what the
forthcoming general election may bring," he said today.
"Just over six years feels to me a reasonable tenure of the
job,"
Commission chairman Michael O'Higgins said: "We will have to work
hard to find as able a successor. Steve steadied, then brought
about durable changes in the structure and functioning of our
organisation."
