The changes set to affect the body’s events team, which had to slash its workforce from 16 to nine last year, as well as events companies reliant on central Government contracts.
There is no indication as yet whether staff will be deployed to other departments.
An internal management board meeting was held this morning with the organisation’s director of live events Simon Hughes and representatives from the Cabinet Office.
Francis Maude, Minister for the Cabinet Office, said: "This does not mean the end of vital and cost effective marketing campaigns – such as those campaigns that save people’s lives. However, it does mean that communications spending in the future will never again get out of hand and instead will be more transparent, better coordinated and less bureaucratic."
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