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A Celebration of women in the civil service Pg3
...he Inland Revenue in Somerset House in 1972, there was only one l...epresentation of women in the House of Commons. 1981 &ndas...ral Democrats in the House of Lords. 1982 – Forensic leadM...female Leader of the House of Lords, the only woman ever app...
A Celebration of Women in the Civil Service Pg2
...W M Adamson, speaking in the House of Commons in support of the...ined the revenue at City Gate house, Moorgate. During the Blitz,...g. 1958 – Women in the House of Lords Women are entitled to sit in the House of Lords for the first time. Barbara W...
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Use procurement to drive innovation, say Lords
...e to procurement, rather than stimulating innovation, according to chairman of the science and technology committee Lord Krebs. Speaking in a House of Lords debate addressing his committ...
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Government should stimulate innovation through procurement, say Lords
More ministerial leadership requiredGovernment is taking the “tried and tested” route to procurement, rather th...ng to chairman of the science and technology committee Lord Krebs.Speaking in a House...
Hennessy: legislation 'rushed through overstretched' Commons
...he other”, through the Commons and into the Lords by a government apparently ex...ge fan of Sir George Young, the leader of the House, who chairs the Parliamentary...select committees and careful scrutiny by the House of Lords. “Without the select commit...
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...n, Sir Gus voiced concerns over splitting the role. In 2009 he told a House of Lords constitution committee inquir...k together once more. Richard Hall is former managing editor of The House Magazine. Click here to see...
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...epartments so often resort to making law? “I hate to blame ministers, but it is the case that ministers all come from either the House of Commons or the House of Lords, and those are legislative bo...
...ed in his eyrie of an office, high above a Lords courtyard, he argues that min...tion that “much of it comes here, to the House of Lords, from the House of Commons in a semi-finished...third: Hennessy’s new home, the House of Lords. Having observed the Lords fr...
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The importance of a clear view
...ious ways. It has expanded the scope of the Act by changing clauses in the Protection of Freedoms Bill, which is currently passing through the House of Lords. These clauses expand the sco...
...niture through the Office of Government Commerce’s furniture clearing house, it says.Quango mergers also...metable,” she says. Because the Public Bodies Bill was changed in the Lords to deny ministers blanket pow...
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An exclusive club: special adviser analysis
...g evidence from other sources. For reasons of space, we have excluded non-departmental spads: those working for the leader of the House of Lords, the leader of the House of Commons, the chief whip, a...
The coalition special advisers
...ervative Research Department, the party’s in-house think-tank. Educated at Edinb...al Democrats in 2009, advising Vince Cable and Lords Oakeshott and Newby on econom...by Coffey. Waghorn was previously based in the House of Commons as a research assi...
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Government should stimulate innovation through procurement, say Lords
Government is taking the “tried and tested” route to procurement, rather than stimulating innovation, according to chairman of the science and technology committee Lord Krebs. Click here to read more.
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Every new generation of ministers arrives in Whitehall suspicious of the civil service machine, says Peter Hennessy. “Ministers arrive brimful of ideology and hope,” he explains. “They’ve absorbed the Crossman diaries and Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister whole, and believe there’s ...
Tags: public service reform, scrutiny of policy and delivery, house of lords