I gave oral evidence to the ‘Accountability of Civil Servants’ inquiry today, which you can find out about here.
You can see the evidence session here And you can read my written submission here.
Month: June 2012
#SR2013 Watch No. 1: “A Pretty Brutal Affair” and DCMS faces in-year cuts after Olympics
The first of what I hope will be many bits of information from ‘insiders’: Continue reading “#SR2013 Watch No. 1: “A Pretty Brutal Affair” and DCMS faces in-year cuts after Olympics”
The Civil Service Reform Plan – Mostly Old Wine in Very Old, but relabelled, Bottles.
The Civil Service Reform Plan announced yesterday mostly rehashes old solutions, some sensible, others of dubious worth – but mostly renames stuff and proclaims it as if it was ‘new’. The cry of ‘cultural change’, for example, towards greater managerial responsibility and accountability has been repeated in Whitehall at least since Rayner and FMI, if not Fulton. If it still hasn’t happened after 5 decades (depending on where you count from) it raises rather fundamental issues, surely? Continue reading “The Civil Service Reform Plan – Mostly Old Wine in Very Old, but relabelled, Bottles.”
Spending Review 2013 Watch #SR2013
It is now a more or less open secret that the Coalition Government is engaged on Spending Review 2013 – a year earlier than if they had stuck to the SR 2010 “plan A”. Continue reading “Spending Review 2013 Watch #SR2013”
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