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Oral Answers to Questions

Tom Pursglove Excerpts
Wednesday 12th September 2018

(5 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Oliver Dowden Portrait Oliver Dowden
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The Government remain strongly committed to having an effective civil service. Thanks to funds provided by the Government, we now employ 7,000 more civil servants to deal with Brexit. With the pay settlements that we are reaching on a Department-by-Department basis, we are ensuring that civil servants are properly rewarded.

Tom Pursglove Portrait Tom Pursglove (Corby) (Con)
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Ministers were right to listen and act on public sector steel procurement. How are the new procurement regulations bedding down, what is their effect and what benefit are they bringing to the UK steel industry?