Letter to Barney Hayhoe MP (resignation)

Dear Barney,

I do want to thank you most warmly for all you have contributed during the past seven years, first at Defence and then for four years as Minister for the Civil Service. During that time you were instrumental in pushing forward our efforts to improve the management and performance of the Civil Service. You also took the brunt of the long Civil Service dispute. Your firmness, and your tact, played a major part in its eventual settlement. And now for the past year you have been Minister for Health, working to raise standards of care in the National Health Service.

I know that your wise and perceptive contribution has been valued in all the Departments in which you have worked, and I am most grateful to you.

Yours ever

Margaret