Whitehall ‘infantilised’ by reliance on consultants, minister claims
Exclusive: leaked letter from Lord Agnew to senior civil servants demands they rein in spending
- A £56m bill and rising …
Whitehall has been “infantilised” by an “unacceptable” reliance on expensive management consultants, a government minister has claimed in a leaked letter.
Lord Agnew, the cabinet and Treasury minister, wrote to senior civil servants two weeks ago demanding they rein in spiralling costs paid to private firms and stop “depriving our brightest [public servants] of opportunities to work on some of the most challenging, fulfilling and crunchy issues”.
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