Just 2,000 public servants to move by end of 2007

ONLY 2,000 of 10,600 public servants will have moved to decentralised posts by the end of 2007, the date the Government originally promised the programme would be completed.

The slow progress of the controversial scheme is revealed in the latest report of the Decentralisation Implementation Group (DIG), published yesterday.

The DIG said the programme’s implementation is “progressing satisfactorily” but problems included: