Sir, I was today invited by the Cabinet Office to attend an interactive conference organised by the Government’s Centre for Management and Policy Studies in collaboration with the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
The conference, “Making the Public Sector Delivery Agenda Work”, is “designed to attract senior executives, HR (human resources) professionals, heads of department and programme and project managers with a strong people/change role” from Civil Service departments, executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies, local authorities, the police and criminal justice sector, education and the National Health Service.
I retired in 1997 from a senior HR role in the private sector. I was last employed in the public sector in 1967 as a university lecturer.
On the basis of today’s invitation and bearing in mind your headline “Inefficient public services ‘are wasting £70bn a year’ ” (Business, July 28), I do not anticipate much progress towards making the public sector delivery agenda work and am saving the £245 cost of the conference towards my next tax increase.
Yours faithfully,
T. M. MOSSON,
Southwood, Liberty Hall,
Haddington, East Lothian EH41 4HF.
July 28.