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...y and impartiality in law. It is in upholding these values that you see the civil service at its best, and that is why this element of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill is so imp...
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Analysis: Not ordering, but empowering
...ow – tasks of structural and process reform; of staff management; of policymaking...th bodies, wholesale structural change and constitutional reform.In 2008, 14 permanent secreta...force the civil service to embrace radical reforms, leading to better services...
...y demanding new policy agendas, such as the constitutional reform programme. I’m also de...gislation being taken through Parliament to reform the Civil Service Compensatio...to make sure we push forward the necessary reforms and changes quickly. We mus...
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The party of localism faces the challenge of central power
...d GPs is not localism, argued Lib Dem peer and former leader of Newcastle City Council Lord Shipley: it is atomisation of public services. Constitutional reform may be being touted as the co...
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Cabinet Manual doesn't create written constitution, says PASC report
...rlier report by the Political and Constitutional Reform (PCR) committee raised concerns over the manual’s constitutional implications. But the...rence organised by the think-tank Reform last week, Jenkin said: “th...good governance and civil service reform.At the conference, Jenkin sai...
Cabinet Manual could become written constitution, say MPs
...nintentionally cause further moves towards one, the political and constitutional reform committee said today.The committee ca...ument suggests it is of limited ambition, "there is scope for the constitutional impact of the Cabinet...
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...inspire him, it seems, are the constitutional and corporate elements. Asked...net Manual, the passing of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act – which...on’s wide-ranging efficiency reforms. The Cabinet Office’s vari...uggestions that the efficiency reforms may lose momentum or that Ke...
...is approach to public service reform is, he says, “radically pragmatic...rise partnerships – further reforms which can be seen as impedim...ng of both public service and constitutional reforms – particula...ies programme is probably the reform with which Adonis is most ass...
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Striking a blow against the cuts
...t government cuts and service reforms. They’re already planning a day of... Miliband’s plans to reform the party’s constitution ha...o put aside “distracting” constitutional reforms. “We have t...grumpy about Blairite service reforms – were broadly sympathetic...
All aboard for a new way of training
...Office sets out its plans for reform, and below Matt Ross analyses them. S...to increase the pressure for reform. Well, now that change has ar...box overleaf). Crucial to the reforms is the principle that any de...as working with ministers and constitutional issues;Leadership of...
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The coalition special advisers
...of an ambitious set of welfare reform policies now being put into practice...pells at libertarian think-tank Reform and Portland PR (where he assisted Jo...ations including A Guide to the Constitutional Treaty and Less Regul...cular areas of interest include constitutional affairs and politics,...
...director of Progress, the Labour reformists’ think-tank. CHIEF WHIP (COMMO...INESS, ENTERPRISE AND REGULATORY REFORM LORD MANDELSON, SECRETARY OF...ess, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform – and, in October 2008, to...ngagement in politics as well as constitutional reform, and led to hi...
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After six years at the head of the civil service, Gus O’Donnell – jokingly dubbed GOD – is retiring. Matt Ross meets him to discuss his legacy, his successors, and the thorny topics around Adam Werritty and coalition government.Sir Gus O’Donnell has been a very unusual cabinet secreta...
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Andrew Adonis likes clarity. He speaks deliberately, ensuring his phrases are clear and well-constructed, as befits a former journalist and politician. The Labour peer, a former education minister and transport secretary, is renowned for being cerebral, and retains something of a ‘policy wonk...
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