Georgia: Public Services Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Georgia: Public Services

Lord Cormack Excerpts
Monday 16th July 2012

(12 years, 3 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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My Lords, I received a detailed briefing from the Georgian embassy this morning, as they discovered that I was due to answer this Question. We are doing a number of things that work in the same direction: we are looking at the provision of the public service estate, and the capital assets pathfinder exercise, working between central and local government, is looking precisely at how you can bring offices together so that services are integrated. In Hampshire, the new Havant public service village, which is the furthest along in this development, is a project that will bring together Hampshire County Council, Havant Borough Council, Hampshire PCT, Hampshire and Isle of Wight police, Capita, Citizens Advice and other voluntary sector partners in the same building. The aim is to transform public service delivery in Havant. That is very much the sort of thing that we have in mind and, incidentally, will save a considerable amount of space by the time it has finished.

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My Lords, has G4S been to Georgia, and if not, why not?

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My Lords, G4S is an international company but I have absolutely no idea whether it has yet been engaged in Georgia.