I propose to take Questions Nos. 101, 104 and 107 together.
My Department is currently engaged in a series of consultations with Civil Service management and the public service staff unions on a new programme of decentralisation. The Government has not yet taken any decisions on the Departments, offices, or agencies or the particular centres which will be included in the new programme. Until such time as the Government has had the opportunity to consider all of the aspects relating to the new programme and taken into account the views which will be expressed in the context of the ongoing consultations, it would be inappropriate for me to express any views as to the inclusion of any particular Department, office, or agency or centre in the new programme.
I intend that the Government will be in a position to take decisions in relation to the new programme by the end of the year.