Jobs relocation policy scrapped
THE controversial relocation policy which has seen hundreds of government jobs transferred out of Edinburgh is to be scrapped.
Finance Secretary John Swinney today announced that in future public bodies would only be relocated where there are wider benefits for the taxpayer and no compulsory redundancies.
It reverses the policy of the previous Labour-Liberal Democrat Scottish Executive, which said any agency or department which had a lease break or merged to form a new body was automatically considered for relocation with a presumption it should be based outside the Capital.
Mr Swinney said: "Relocation policy to date has not achieved the benefits intended."
The Public and Commercial Services union said it was "a sensible move forward".
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