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Sajid Javid overruled top official's Royal Mail share warning

Coverage of Business Secretary Sajid Javid “disregarding” advice from his permanent secretary that giving shares to postal workers wasn’t value for money. Quotes Institute for Government research into ‘letters of direction’ which found “relatively few instances of ministers formally overruling departmental permanent secretary advice”.

Publisher
The Guardian

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