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Petition update, 21 November 2008

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As part of it’s plans to centralise HMRC operations, the Government has issued proposals indicating that it intends to close it’s Dumfries office

The office in Dumfries has already seen significant job losses in recent years. The majority of remaining staff are likely to face redundancy (due to our rural location, options are limited & other Public Sector jobs within the area are few & far between).

Dumfries is a rural town & further job losses will have a serious effect on the local economy (as was the case when the Government withdrew the Department for Works & Pensions office from Dumfries). Centralisation of Government departments is having a devastating effect on rural locations like Dumfries. Our share of public sector jobs is being withdrawn in favour of those who live in Cities, resulting in Civil Service job opportunities being lost to our Community forever.

Please help save our office by signing this petition

Current signatories

Joyce Carmichael, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Mr Partis (petitions.pm.gov.uk/NHS-dentists4all/)
• Gemma Doyle
• Karen Hunter
• Tony Crosbie
• david clark
• Kara Scott
• Ross Campbell
• Nicola Campbell
• Scott Henderson
• kirsty wells
• Jordan Ali
• Garry Crosbie
• Lorna Mitchell
• Scott McIver
• Stuart Matthews
• Isobel Wight
• Margaret McGregor
• K Thompson
• Linsey Rodgers
• john dwan
• COLIN CARRICK
• Simon Richardson
• Jillian Brown
• Alison Cartner
• Kimberley Watts
• Julian Meredith
• Donna Walls
• Frank Nicol Manson
• graeme bell
• Jamie Doyle
• stephen Marshall
• Ann McGill
• Kay Paterson
• Gina McGill
• nicola conchie
• David McGuire
• John Carter
• John Watts
• Craig McGoldrick
• Joyce Campbell
• Elizabeth Watts
• Richard Korus
• Melissa M Henderson
• Andrew Dodd
• kelly lumsden
• Jody Kirkpatrick
• Tracy Kowla
• John Kowal
• Tom Hiddleston
• Fraser McGill
• ian bell
• Alan Walker
• LINDA MILLIGAN
• Lynda Geddes
• Iain McEwan
• Craig Stitt
• Jane Edwards
• Jonathan Robert Muirhead
• Rosemary Matthew
• Sarah McConnel
• Mari Findlay
• Gillian Walker
• Maryann Benson
• Moira Forsyth
• Mairi Henderson
• kevin tait
• Alison Sim
• Shonagh Woodward
• Theresa McBride
• Andrew M Dickson
• Joan Brown
• Caroline Aikman
• Jacqueline Hayward
• Ann Pettigrew
• Jock Watson
• Andrew McLean
• Lisa Wheelan
• Lesli McIntosh
• Agnes Storrie
• Alison Rendall
• Chelsey Watts
• JACKIE CAMPBELL
• Julia.Adamo Walls
• Margaret Kingdon
• Ann Gass
• Claire Allan
• Helen Dickson
• Lindsay Sim
• Euan Rogerson
• Rob Davidson
• neil hamilton
• Stephen Walls
• Lucie Waddell
• carrie carmichael
• Richard Irving
• Colin Coutts
• joyce feenan-litster
• vicki macdonald
• Douglas Campbell
• kirstine burns
• David Carlin
• William Dunlop
• Gary Cother
• Dominic Clark
• Diane Inkster
• Kirsty Renac
• John Taylor
• Geraldine Hamilton
• Neil Sturrock
• john doherty
• Geraldine Donoghue
• Charles Ogilvie
• Bruce McLachlan
• Irving Gracie
• Jayne Brown
• Yvonne Smith
• Amanda L Roche
• Neil Smith
• Alistair Dalgliesh
• Mrs Maureen Wilson
• Mrs Morag Rothwell
• Pamela Hoyle
• David Hoyle
• Steven Ballard
• Russell Brown
• Carol Willis
• Andrew Young
• Allanah Houston
• ruairi magee
• Liz Kerr
• Jayne Pringle
• Annette Wilkie
• John E J O'Neill
• Nigel Walmsley
• Darran Wiseman
• Suzanne Little
• Greg Ironside
• Lyn Powlter
• Jim O'Neill
• Mark Fallone
• Ross Brown
• George Brawley
• Michael Kerrigan
• Margaret Robson
• rosemary conchie
• Evelyn Taylor
• Violet McCallum
• Peter Yates
• Jennifer Laing
• Valerie Webster
• Ann Mackay
• Lorraine Lloyd
• Norma Fenwick
• Ray Pickett
• George Cockburn
• Karen Liepins
• Albert Carmichael
• Ryant Carmichael
• Fiona C Thain
• Ian Williamson
• Karen Sutherland
• Neil McCourtie
• Ruth Brown
• Katherine Hay
• Lisa Gardiner
• Carol McConachie
• Rosemary Vidler
• Graeme Ball
• John Oswald
• Allan Tait
• karen noctor
• Gordon Dundas
• David McNay
• Dawn Tait
• Colin Day
• Raymond Thomson
• Jack Thomson
• James Thomson
• Denis Thomson
• kevin Bullock
• Larry Savage
• Alick Reynolds
• Dave Johnson
• Joy Henderson
• Ruth Henderson
• Mark Toner
• Andrew McCourtie
• Andrew Johnson
• Patrick Slaven
• Elizabeth Cusworth
• Kirsteen McKenzie
• keith marshall
• Nancie Clanachan
• Rober Rodger
• RUSSELL CASKIE
• Zoe Harvey
• Russell Marchant
• I Robson
• Laura Wilson
• David Graham
• Anita Ballard
• alison johnson
• Grace Dempster
• Robert Dempster
• Margaret Dean
• Cathy Macdonald
• Ross McGarva
• Robert Haining
• Neil Anderson
• sara Findlay
• tracy mccamley
• Hamish Drummond
• Margaret Hall
• Margaret McGuire
• Susan McMahon
• Neil Macfarlane
• Alan Valentine
• Drew Duffy
• ELEANOR FERGUSON
• Jeff Leaver
• William M Forbes
• Craig Kerr
• Martin Phin
• Elaine Murray
• Ron Findlay
• Susan Baker
• Paul Tillyer PCS GEC
• John Wales
• Tom Ballard
• Lorna McCrone
• Alan Ewart
• Jill Ewart
• Annette Ramage
• Steven Bird
• Bridget Bird
• Allyn Hake
• Cara Hake
• Helen Hake
• Louise McPeake
• Kevin McHugh
• Pete Grubb
• Elenor Haven
• Lorna Merry
• Fiona McKinnon
• Anne Oliver
• Laura Pinkerton
• Stuart Lauder
• BrendanO'Hara
• chris barclay
• Josh Walsh
• Ewan Soutar
• Stephen Hetterley
• Shona Roberts
• Anona Fraser
• John Ainsworth
• Alex Wilson
• Lauren McCorkindale
• Kerry Fairless
• Lynne Lake
• Anne White
• Christine Hurley
• Heather Noller
• Nick Parker
• Patricia Boyle
• Colin Fox
• John Davidson
• Andrew Mark Chisman
• Robert Goddard
• Norma Anderson
• Patricia Chisholm
• lorna kennedy
• Lianda Barnes
• Geoffrey Lockyer
• Liz Aston
• Karen Marchbank