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Debate between Maria Miller and Julia Lopez
Thursday 8th July 2021

(3 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Julia Lopez Portrait Julia Lopez
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I thank my hon. Friend for his important and incisive question. The civil service, as he acknowledges, has historically used contractors to provide specialist skills and to manage short-term requirements. We really want to drive that down by improving our own capability. We are developing a pipeline of secondments into major organisations through a new secondments unit. We are building an in-house consultancy, we are creating a civilian reserve, and we are working with the Civil Service Commission to review how we attract entrants with specific high-demand skills, particularly scientists and engineers.

Maria Miller Portrait Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke) (Con)
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What steps the Government are taking to implement their levelling-up agenda.