Saturday 24 November 2007

In the post.


So, the Scotland Office employs twenty civil servants to field three letters a day.

"TWENTY staff are employed at the £6million-a-year Scotland Office to cope with just three letters a day. The astonishing revelation sparked calls for it to be scrapped as an irrelevant waste of cash. The Scotland Office occupies plush Dover House in Whitehall and is supposed to look after our interests down south. But its role has shrunk dramatically since devolution in 1999. We can reveal 20 staff employed to deal with mail replied to 1252 letters in 2006-2007 - just over one per member of staff every week."

Nice building which at one time was the former home of a previous Secretary of State for Scotland's mistress.

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