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Whitehall skill shortage warning

Too few Whitehall departments understand their skills shortages or possess clear plans to tackle them to deliver the Government's public service reform agenda, research by independent think-tank the Institute for Government found.

It said "commercial skills in Whitehall were particularly scarce".

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