There is no shortage of evidence that the current systemof local government could be improved: last year, an Audit Commission report criticised the committee system as an enormous waste of time and money.
Just as promptly, he needs to set up a land commission, produce an early auditof who owns the land and arrange a proper systemof compensation, with help from Britain, for those who have lost it.
Labour brought forward its NHS debate at parliament following a report by public spending watchdog Audit Scotland which said the management and scrutiny of the waiting time system "had not been good enough".
According to a report this week from the Audit Commission, a public-spending watchdog, the introduction of a similar system in Australia resulted in a big productivity improvement.