| How will Employment and Social Security Departments be established? |
| Wednesday, 18 March 2009 15:14 |
| Again, Scottish taxpayers already pay the cost of employment and social security offices, and many of the structures and staff already exist within Scotland to run these services independently. For example, we already have over 50 local employment offices and a network of benefits agency offices, presently under UK Government control. What we will not need to pay for after Independence is the high London office andlabour costs associated with the Government departments and bureaucracies presently behind these agencies. Far from there being economies of scale in the UK system, there is much to suggest that the DSS and its agencies – not least the Child Support Agency – have been lumbering, bureaucratic, and distant from the needs of Scottish people. They could be run much more effectively by an independent government. |
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