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...ivil service **Following last year's Spending Review it was revealed that between them Government departments were expected to...uce administration costs by 33%. The Government's cull of quangos, in which 1.... It brings together people from all government departments and agencies un...
358 days ago
...ivil service **Following last year's Spending Review it was revealed that between them Government departments were expected to...uce administration costs by 33%. The Government's cull of quangos, in which 1.... It brings together people from all government departments and agencies un...
358 days ago
Partners and Exhibitors - Visa
Visa Europe is the proven solution for UK Government with over 1,700 public sector organisations using our pay...g increased transparency, accountability and control of public sector spending.
237 days ago
Agenda for Employee Engagement and Change Management
...ublic sector; we will ask how government might further support the rad...ked Number 1 in the UK by the Government Skills Framework, is accredit...ed to ensure that all central Government messages about the Games are...Disability and Carers Service Spending Review 2010/change communicatio...
222 days ago
Sponsored feature: building the future
...every shape and size. As the government puts infrastructure at the he...ng the country. He is Head of Government & Public for construction...rovide an opportunity for the government to work with commercial bodie...that infrastructure remains a spending priority. “Projects like...
7 days ago
Appointments and Moves: 25 Jan 2012
...ted as the executive director for all of the government’s communications. Grey...ustice (MOJ), has been announced as the next government CIO. Nelson takes over from J...as been appointed director general of public spending in HM Treasury. White, previo...
13 days ago
Change across the civil service
...st 10 months of the coalition government, from May 2010 to March 2011....ffice and across the whole of government, civil servants have worked t...m the start, we knew that the spending review settlement would mean th...ifficult times ahead. Current spending on public services had to contr...
166 days ago
Opening the gates to Trojan mutuals
...l to observe that, under this government, the UK’s public sector...ting costs ensure that public spending as a proportion of GDP is set t...ed to show that public sector spending is simply returning to the leve...han the overstretched arms of government. Many DWP contractors have...
377 days ago
Sir Gus defends civil service against criticisms over ‘pace’
...rating for ministers. It is now incumbent on us to get back and start spending our budgets on capital.”O’D...ssage and work hard with them, and where there are obstacles outside [government] then work with them to get...
50 days ago
Health budget cash ‘could be used to fill potholes’
...ocal public health work could, under the government’s public health plans, be u...herefore is categorised as public health spending.”Under the government’s health reforms, local aut...missioners to improve public health. The government also hopes to improve publi...
96 days ago
Editorial: If it’s not working, do something else
...ent made clear yesterday, the government’s plans to cut us back to g...ts since 2007 have taught the government nothing about honesty on borr...r mortgages make explicit the government’s commitment to underwrite...e austerity. While real terms spending cuts will average 0.2 per cent...
63 days ago
...cord in our new Institute for Government report, Transitions: Lessons...ge under a new (Conservative) government. All this was on the usual as...– in particular on in-year spending cuts – was not far from offer...ain potential participants in government – whether currently in offi...
82 days ago
...evelopment a key plank of the government’s growth strategy, the Trea...ucture projects (half in this spending review period, to be funded fro...sewhere, and half in the next spending review period) and published a...ublic and private investment. Government, said the NIP, will be taking...
6 days ago
Interview: Bob Kerslake and Jeremy Heywood
...the operation of a coalition government, while working to tackle econ...imidating, particularly given government’s diminishing resources. Th...y it is right and proper that government look at all the issues that i...re a test of how well central government can understand the issues at...
7 days ago
...gathered at the Institute for Government (IfG) in central London. Thes...ctor of strategy for UK civil government at HP, summarises the message...ural changes in public sector spending, particularly the rise in age-r...elated healthcare and pension spending over the long term.”Shafik’...
48 days ago
...ngly unwilling to bear.“The government is ending the ‘pay first, c...iggest single chunk of public spending, have been at the forefront of...ley warns, plans to move more government services online will open up...ealth, welfare, tax and local government. Because of the way their sys...
61 days ago
...during a period of swingeing spending cuts it has become more crucial...lity of financial data across government; but even with improved data,...ined three main ways in which government uses information: to enable P...ed that achieving that aim in government is a difficult proposition. T...
180 days ago
As public spending cuts bite deeper, the pressure on civil servants to...of services delivered by non-governmental organisations, and to devel...onsider the issues raised for government as a whole.The round table be...s; and she admitted that some government departments see the Home Offi...
180 days ago
Special report: How efficient is your department?
...blished figures showing their spending on a range of back office funct...er the last six months; their spending on government procurement cards; and the se...ive stories for the coalition government. The QDS, meanwhile, have att...e comparisons of departmental spending in key common areas such as HR...
90 days ago
Special report: SCS recruitment
...e; and those entering central government from the wider public, privat...ply. Before the election, all government departments had to draw up pl...ts of around a third over the spending review period.The picture is no...began in the 1990s, when the government opened up senior jobs to exte...
114 days ago
The Spending Review has now been announced, but details of the review will only become cle...ish business plans outlining their priorities and spending pla...d examining the review’s implications for cross-governmental management and efficiency...
175 days ago
...aches might be applied in different areas of government or exchange advice and experi...int reviews between departments and Treasury spending teams to identify scope to improve value for money across major areas of spending. The PVP has already identi...
180 days ago
When Gordon Brown finally uttered the word “cuts” – a totemic term he had until then avoided – at the TUC conference last year, he was only confirming what everyone already knew: that public spending will inevitably have to fall in the medium term to counteract the UK’s spiralling publi...
Tags: business and economy, government spending, public service reform
180 days ago
To accompany the Budget last week, all the departments laid out their contributions to the £11bn efficiency savings that the government says must be found. Ruth Keeling and Joe Wedgwood set out the detailWhoever wins the election, the next government will soon begin reducing the budget deficit ...
Tags: government spending, budget march 2010
180 days ago
Comment on "A Map for the Future?"
...S is becoming a framework for governments to share information with ci...maps and GIS pervade society, governments increasingly use GIS as a pl...works to promote two-way open government practices that leaders and ci...telling patterns about public spending and lead to improved public ser...719 days ago
Comment on "A Map for the Future?"
...ociety (pages 10-11) and is devoted to "Governments letting in the light". It&nb...free thanks to an initiative the bring more government services online." In...he Audit Commission) says "As a local public spending watchdog, the Audit Commissio...711 days ago
