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Asked if the Prime Minister had been indicating in his speech today that he was thinking about changing the structure of Ministerial portfolios so that Ministers would be able to work outside their Departments, the PMOS congratulated the journalist on posing such a cleverly disguised reshuffle question. On a more general point, the Prime Minister believed that certain issues - such as street crime, drugs and migration - cut across departmental boundaries, which meant that they were not capable of being dealt with purely within departmental silos. As the Prime Minister had said in his speech, we had to find a way to manage such projects, as was common practice within large organisations. The trick, in relation to the civil service, was how to do so while at the same time maintaining parliamentary accountability.

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"PMOS congratulated the journalist on posing such a cleverly disguised reshuffle question".

Huh! When /I/ was a civil servant /I/ wasn’t allowed to use irony. Pfooey.
Comment by Tom Steinberg — 26 Feb 2004 on 9:42 am | Link

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