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Is the Civil Service Accountable to Parliament? Hodge vs O’Donnell spat opens...
Is the Civil Service accountable to parliament? Margaret Hodge MP, the formidable chair of the powerful Public Accounts Committee of Parliament says “yes”. Sir (now Lord) Gus O’Donnell and other...
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Jeremy Hunt (DCMS) debacle raises again the issue of Civil Service Reform
This week saw an extraordinary outburst from the most recently retired Head of the Civil Service, Lord Gus O’Donnell. He said, on the BBC, “”When governments go through difficult patches you are...
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policy@manchester launches
Public policy community comes together 12 Jul 2012 The University of Manchester has established Policy@Manchester as a network bringing together a range of academics working in a variety of public...
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G4S and rethinking public services: going beyond ‘one size fits all’
guest post by John Alford and Janine O’Flynn The G4S fiasco surrounding security for the London Olympics has sparked debate about the problems of contracting out. In a new book, John Alford and Janine...
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Co-Evolution of the Development of Public Administration, Democracy and...
Philipp Krause has raised some very interesting issues about the development of public finance institutions in emerging economies (which are equally applicable to wider public administration capacity...
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Dave says we’re headed in the right direction, what do you think?
PM David Cameron claims we are ‘headed in the right direction’. Below are the latest headline figures from the Office of National Statistics website on the state of our national finances (so all their...
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Top Twenty Whitehall Watch blog posts
Here’s the top twenty Whitehall Watch blog posts (so far) and the number of views. This doesn’t include numbers for posts that have been republished by Public Finance, Public Servant, LSE Policy and...
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PASC Takes PM to Task Over Ministerial Inquiries.
It’s couched in polite terms, but today the Public Administration Select Committee issued what amounted to a bruising attack on PM David Cameron. The PASC said the PM was wrong to ask the Cabinet...
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The Scrutiny of Public Spending: Margaret Hodge, Robert Chote, and Amyas...
We are organising a series of debates and discussions about how Britain manages public money. Getting and Spending public money is big business. Even after the current Coalition government’s austerity...
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Lord O’Donnell Suggests …. that someone rather like him should be put in...
Lord O’Donnell, former head of the civil service, has put forward some ideas for better scrutiny of proposed government policies. According to a report in Civil Service World: Among ideas to prevent...
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Lies, Damned Lies and Government misuse of official statistics: Select...
I reproduce here the Press Release issued today by the Public Administration Select Committee – it speaks for itself. Here is the link to the actual Report:...
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