Dispersal Policy

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Civil Service – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 4 July 1983.

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Photo of Mr Barney Hayhoe Mr Barney Hayhoe , Brentford and Isleworth 12:00, 4 July 1983

It is important that Departments should seek to get better value for money and have more efficient methods of working. I do not believe that they should artificially preserve jobs that are not required and thereby act against their efficient running. Those must be the right criteria. It would be wrong if the Government, or a particular Department, subsidised and retained unnecessary jobs in the Civil Service at taxpayers' expense.