Any decision about moving a location of a department would be a political decision. There probably is some scope at the departmental planning level for looking at the smaller scale or moderate scale, at how they distribute work and things like that, and at the structure of a regional office. Those are day-to-day operational decisions that would be handled by a department. But anything major, such as what you're talking about, would be a decision of the elected government of the day.
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