An ongoing review assessing the scope of the Manx government is progressing well.
The chief minister’s revealed the search for budget savings across all departments in a slimmed-down government is well under way.
A package of restructuring reforms is also due to go to Tynwald next week.
But Allan Bell says that doesn’t mean the scope work – which includes examining possible corporatisation, centralising services and assessing alternative structures – has been put on the backburner:
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