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Chief says government departments need unification

Mon, 10 Aug 2015

Government departments are 'territorial' and don't communicate with each other well enough.

That's according to the Chief Minister.

A four-week extension was granted for a public consultation aimed at changing government's legal framework.

At present, individual departments have separate identities in law - the 'Single Legal Entity' proposals seek to form a clear status as one body.

Allan Bell gives us an example of why it needs to happen: 

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