Cabinet Office seeks legal rights to control planning policy

Wed, 09 Dec 2015

Plans are underway to make the Cabinet Office into a separate government department.

The idea will go before Tynwald next week - if successful it means there will be eight departments from January next year.

The Cabinet Office wants to take over the Island's planning policy but at present can't because it doesn't have the legal rights.

Chief Minister Allan Bell is reassuring taxpayers that it wouldn't affect them: