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Ways and Means
Wednesday 3rd March 2021

(3 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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I think I already know most of it.

Liam Fox Portrait Dr Liam Fox (North Somerset) (Con)
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My right hon. Friend will be aware that when devolution was established in Scotland, there was no separate Scottish civil service created; we have a UK civil service, with UK ministerial oversight. Given the turmoil in Scottish politics, will he confirm that any civil servants who feel pressurised to behave inappropriately have a mechanism to seek redress beyond the Ministers to whom they are immediately answerable?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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I thank my right hon. Friend, and of course we will support all civil servants. By the way, I thank them for the work that they have done up and down the country throughout the pandemic. I think everybody in this House would agree that now is the time, really, for our civil service to focus on working together to build back better together, rather than on measures that might divide our country.

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