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Part of the debate – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 20 Rhagfyr 1973.

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Photo of Mr Graham Page Mr Graham Page , Crosby 12:00, 20 Rhagfyr 1973

Central Government was very generous over the question of those who wished to retire from local government in the course of the reorganisation and in the case of redundancies. In many cases I have been personally accused of encouraging the House to be too generous over this. A great number of chief officers have retired at a young age to take up employment elsewhere at better remuneration and drawing their pensions also. Good luck to them. The intention was that we should streamline local government establishments and enable people to find jobs elsewhere.