Is the hon. Gentleman aware that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has already taken some £320 million out of its operating budget, and is now employing some 1,500 fewer people? Yet DEFRA would claim that its outputs have been sustained. This is called "improved productivity". Does the hon. Gentleman accept that fact?
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation
Proceeding contribution from
Michael Jack
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 24 March 2010.
It occurred during Budget debate on Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation.
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