§ Mr. Gerald Bowdenasked the Minister for the Civil Service what steps have been taken to delegate responsibility within the Civil Service.
§ Mr. LuceMore delegation is one of the objectives of our reforms of personnel and financial management. The central departments have delegated a wide range of authorities to spending departments, while maintaining where necessary common standards and rules across the Civil Service. Departments in turn delegate many authorities to line managers. But we are doing more to give individual managers clear authorities and responsibilities for the people and resources that they manage.