By Chris Dorrell Jeremy Hunt has made improving public sector productivity a core plank of his economic strategy. “We need a more productive state not a bigger state,” he said in the Spring Budget last week. “It’s not fair to ask taxpayers to pay for more when public service productivity has fallen”. In the Spring Budget, the Chancellor announced plans to invest £800m in public services – funds that are specifically earmarked for new technologies, including artificial intelligence. This came alongside a £3.4bn investment package for the NHS, of which £1bn will go towards data and AI. According…