Thank you.
You certainly identified a number of the common red flags that would come up if we were at least thinking of a review. The one I'm interested in is the whole movement of public service employees to political staff and then back again. You point out that you looked at 157 cases where this happened and 24 raised questions and 15 you felt were “...a misuse of the staffing system. Special efforts were made to move people into positions in which they had no reasonable intention of staying. This was done to facilitate the movement of the individuals concerned and to ensure they had an easy route back into the public service”.
This is a serious issue for anybody wanting to make sure that our public service isn't tainted with partisanship in any way. Can you tell us in what departments that happened?