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Published Date: 28 January 2008
THE controversial relocation policy which has seen hundreds of government jobs transferred out of Edinburgh is to be scrapped.
Finance Secretary John Swinney today announced that in future public bodies would only be relocated where there are wider benefits for the taxpayer and no compulsory redundancies.

It reverses the policy of the previous Labour-Liberal Democrat Scottish Executive, which said any agency or department which had a lease break or merged to form a new body was automatically considered for relocation with a presumption it should be based outside the Capital.

Mr Swinney said: "Relocation policy to date has not achieved the benefits intended."

The Public and Commercial Services union said it was "a sensible move forward".



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  • Last Updated: 28 January 2008 1:19 PM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Public bodies relocation
 
1

Loki - The Scourge of the Schemies,

EH1 28/01/2008 15:48:02
I am not a natural SNP sympathiser but I say, 'Good for Swinney'.
The cack-handed relocation policy was always yet another back-door subsidy to Glasgow, a city which has a far higher per capita public sector than Edinburgh. The last time I looked at the documentation, the split was 27% in Glasgow set against 22% in the capital city.
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Hector Goodrich (Dr),

Gillin pronounced 'Gullane' 28/01/2008 18:15:51
2 No but the new and, in my view, eminently sensible policy should end the process of exporting the public sector to an area of the country that is already over-represented with public sector employment.
Mr Swinney's view that previous relocations have not achieved the intended benefits is another way of saying that taxpayer's money was squandered.

 

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