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Civil servants too 'London-based,' says Danny Alexander
September 14, 2011 by Joshua Chambers
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Speaking in an interview with the Sunday Times last weekend, chief secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander said:
"I think government benefits from having all sorts of backgrounds and, equally, from different parts of the country. There's a danger that civil servants in Whitehall are very London-based people who never go beyond the M25, so sometimes they need to be reminded that there's a whole country out there. And now, more than ever, I realise how immesely privileged I am to have grown up in some of its tiniest and remotest communities.
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I totally agree with the view that the Civil Service is too London Focused.
Maybe we need to try a different Technology driven "National spread" structure, administration & Management to support Ministers rather than totally being "next Door" to them.
Technology verses distance
New verses Old Parliament/ Ministerial Support
We need "New" to win to be effective within cost contrains
Douglas Grant 187 days ago