Covid-19: Levelling-up Agenda Debate

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Baroness Wheatcroft

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Covid-19: Levelling-up Agenda

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Tuesday 8th September 2020

(3 years, 7 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Greaves? I call the noble Baroness, Lady Wheatcroft.

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The Government pledged to move policymakers into what Michael Gove termed

“overlooked and hitherto undervalued communities”,

yet many Civil Service jobs are now being advertised as remote working. These are not just junior roles but £60,000 and £70,000-a-year jobs, which would help level up communities. Can the Minister assure the House that when government departments move, the civil servants will have to go with them?