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The public sector's daftest prizes

Plus: The rising take of National Insurance, and the nastiest mobile-phone bills

5 July 2014

9:00 AM

5 July 2014

9:00 AM

All must have prizes

Paul Pugh, the £104,000-a-year chief executive of the Passport Office, was nominated for ‘leader of the year’ in the government’s Investors in People Awards, in spite of long delays in passport issues. Some more pointless public sector awards:
— UK Public Sector Communications Awards. Currently held by Derbyshire County Council, for telling the public it was going to snow.

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