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THE measures advocated by Sir Gwilym Gibbon in a recent issue of Public Administration for the co-ordination of departments into groups with a minister for each, tbe Cabinet consisting of the Prime Minister and these ministers-in-chief and a few other ministers with few or no departmental duties, recall the report of the Machinery of Government Committee, of which Lord Haldane was chairman. Little or nothing has been done to implement the findings of that report since it appeared so long ago as 1918; but Sir Gwilym, in urging that it is imperative that this Cabinet directorate “shall be relieved of all but the matters of most importance, and that above all, it and its members shall have enough freedom from pressing duties to think of coming problems (as well as of current) well ahead of their coming”, is indeed only restating the arguments and views of that report.
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A Ministry of Reconstruction. Nature 145, 681–682 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145681a0
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