{"id":7942,"date":"2026-06-04T17:31:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=7942"},"modified":"2026-06-04T17:31:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:31:20","slug":"public-sector-needs-change-of-culture-says-fm-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=7942","title":{"rendered":"Public sector &#8216;needs change of culture,&#8217; says FM \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <\/p>\n<p>John Swinney: service delivery (pic: DB Media Services)<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Public service reform will mean a loss of jobs, but is key to a change of culture and leadership in how services are delivered, John Swinney told a business gathering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In his address to the Prosper Forum in Edinburgh, Mr Swinney emphasised that he sees a partnership with business to build the \u201cstronger economy\u201d that will deliver \u201ccitizen-centred public services\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">He said there was a need to change attitudes from \u201cno, because\u201d to \u201cyes, if\u201d and it required shifting from the needs of the system to the needs of the citizen, business and the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The planning system was a good example of what needs to be done, he said. He promised to increase capacity and resources to enable faster decision making, as well streamlining the process by removing obstacles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">There will be detailed consultation with the first 100 days of the new government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe need to hear about the problems, but also innovative ideas to make things work better,\u201d he said. This coupled with a need to review the business rates system. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI have heard the issues raised by many, in particular in the hospitality sector, and you can be assured that these are issues under active and urgent consideration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">See also<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Regions, energy and EU will drive growth<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Swinney drops strong hints on Amazon tax<\/p>\n<p>           \t            #Public #sector #change #culture #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Swinney: service delivery (pic: DB Media Services) Public service reform will mean a loss&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[272,6589,1626,898,306,13911,13830,1664,13912,1529],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}