My Lords, the noble Lord’s predecessor, the noble Lord, Lord Bach, repeatedly told us that staff in the Rural Payments Agency were working incredibly hard and for long hours to get the payments through. But according to newspaper reports, in the Newcastle office at least, staff seem to have been swinging naked from chandeliers and drinking champagne. Will he prevail upon the chief executive, Mr Cooper, to ensure that, fun-loving though these people may be, they get back to do the work they are paid for?
Rural Payments Agency
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Willoughby de Broke
(Conservative Independent)
in the House of Lords on Thursday, 22 June 2006.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Rural Payments Agency.
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