States streamlining plan: four departments may go
FOUR States departments could go under proposals to streamline government and cut the size of the public sector.
The wide-ranging suggestions have been under consideration for some time but are likely to be accelerated now there is a new chief minister and States chief executive.
The potential reforms, which could result in creating a handful of 'super departments', have been discussed at length within Frossard House.
Those talks are thought to have transferred to the current review of the island's machinery of government, being carried out by the States Review Committee.
And new States chief executive Paul Whitfield, pictured, has thrown his weight behind the idea, saying a reduction in the number of States departments would result in an improved public sector.