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Five Year Plan

Asked to clarify what a Five Year Plan was, and were they backed by documents, the PMOS said that if the journalist examined various departments’ Five Year Plans, he would see the depth of the plan. The PMOS explained that it was work that was developing an overall strategy for five years within a department, and setting that out. It had been set out to Parliament, and the statement to Parliament was what the plan contained. It was a clear vision of each subject matter of the Government’s approach.

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4 Comments »

  1. Ooh! A Five Year Plan! How original!
    http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSfive.htm

    Comment by Chris Lightfoot — 7 Mar 2005 on 11:01 pm | Link
  2. In a fast changing World forward planning is "what’s for lunch?"
    – my quote as a software developer.

    A 5 year plan is complete b*ll*cks when governments only sit for 4 years.

    Why are they wasting my taxes?

    Comment by Roger Huffadine — 7 Mar 2005 on 11:15 pm | Link
  3. "Asked to clarify what a Five Year Plan was, and were they backed by documents, the PMOS said that if the journalist examined various departments’ Five Year Plans, he would see the depth of the plan."

    So no actual explanation at all, just a rather oblique reference to the depth of the plans, as though that’s enough for any idiot to understand how that depth of planning makes the plan a Five Year Plan. What a load of old tosh!

    Comment by PapaLazzzaru — 8 Mar 2005 on 3:09 am | Link
  4. Sounds like something out of Monty Python, dunnit?! "Five is the number, and the number is Five. Count ye not to Three or Four unless thou then proceedeth to Five…"

    Comment by PapaLazzzaru — 8 Mar 2005 on 3:10 am | Link

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