Government Information and Communication Service

HL Deb 17 January 2000 vol 608 c136WA

The Earl of Northesk

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they have any plans to impove further the performance of the Government Information and Communication Service. [HL433]

The Minister of State, Cabinet Office (Lord Falconer of Thoroton)

The process of improving the Government Information and Communication Service (GICS), in accordance with the recommendations of theReport of the Working Group on the Government Information Service (Mountfield Report, November 1997), is almost complete.

The Head of the GICS and his colleagues are now concentrating on further improvements through better training and development and through the implementation, in partnership with the Centre for Management and Policy Studies, of new systems of peer review.