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Departmental mergers - Putting it together. When government departments merge, it means big upheavals for information departments. The creation of Defra in 2001 and HMRC in 2005 meant big management obstacles to overcome, as Jane Dudman discovered when she talked to movers and shakers at both departments.(Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs )

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Government is never content to let things be and its own internal workings are no exception. Civil servants have come to live with almost constant change, as all governments tinker with the way in which they deliver services to their citizens.

The biggest recent example has been the massive merger of the Inland Revenue and HM Customs & Excise, to form HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs), which employs almost a fifth of all civil servants. The merger involved more than 100,000 employees, 906 offices and 250 IT systems.

Many government departments have changed during the past decade. The Department for Work and Pensions, for instance, was formed from ...

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