Rather, their responsibility may be relatively minor: asking and collecting these evaluations from the working peers of a given employee, and then doing a write up of what they find.

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All these relatively minor measures are likely to be overshadowed by yet another downgrading of the official economic forecasts by the Office for Budget Responsibility which is likely to predict lower growth and higher borrowing in the years to come.

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