Departmental Restructuring
Home Department
Michael Gove (Shadow Minister (Housing), Communities and Local Government; Surrey Heath, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on departmental restructuring.
John Reid (Home Secretary; Airdrie and Shotts, Labour)
The decision to refocus the Home Office so that it is better able to respond to the changes in the world at both a global and local level, where we have moved from static communities and a static world to a highly mobile world was one that was taken by the Prime Minister and discussed at Cabinet.