\u201cThe idea that we should have a sales force around the world helping business is never really that effective,\u201d he told POLITICO. <\/p>\n
He added that businesses really want “low tax, easy employment rules and well-designed fluid regulations,” adding that the \u201cidea that the government can somehow \u2018do business\u2019 is nuts and is all that\u2019s wrong with the world today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trade veteran David Henig, a former government adviser now at the European Center for International Political Economy said he “would expect this to be taking a lot of staff time and energy.” <\/p>\n
“Obviously fewer numbers may mean choices in what to prioritize,” he said. “I do think this government has undervalued the role of DBT, [as] implementing the trade and industrial strategies are crucial to U.K. growth.” <\/p>\n
A government spokesperson confirmed it plans to “reduce the department in size.\u201d While \u201cno department-wide recruitment freeze has been put in place, the changes are designed to maximize [its] efficiency, ensuring [they] have the right expertise in the right place, while also delivering for British business,” they added.<\/p>\n
The spokesperson said Chancellor Rachel Reeves had allocated \u00a3150 million to fund an employee exit scheme supporting \u201ca leaner and more efficient civil service, helping to reduce [Whitehall-wide] administration costs by 15 percent by the end of the decade.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe idea that we should have a sales force around the world helping business is never really that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,9577,10071,65738,65739,101,4084,1872,4549,15207,65740,7263,162,3732,9581,14809,3733,447,1049,21],"class_list":["post-97526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-david-lammy","tag-department","tag-department-for-business-and-trade","tag-dominic-johnson","tag-economy","tag-employment","tag-energy","tag-exports","tag-growth","tag-health-professionals-workforce","tag-industry","tag-investment","tag-rachel-reeves","tag-rights","tag-services","tag-tax","tag-trade","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}