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Home Office praised on finances
...said the department had made big improvements since the highly critical capability review of 2006 – the same year in which then-home secretary John Reid described it as “not fit fo...
749 days ago
Chris Grayling: shadow home secretary
...ges may well be a corporate one. While the Home Office has, according to capability reviewers, improved dramatically since former home secretary John Reid declared it “not fit for pu...
749 days ago
...out immigration when the foreign prisoner deportation scandal hit – soon forcing out home secretary Charles Clarke. In May 2006, his successor John Reid notoriously damned the direct...
176 days ago
...ary Charles Clarke was shuffled onto the back benches and replaced by John Reid, who publicly described the H...dding in one of the dry asides which pepper his conversation: “even John Reid”.So Reid’s morale-dampeni...
176 days ago
...ontline service providers directly accountable to Parliament – an approach first adopted in 2003 by the last government, when health secretary John Reid told MPs that he would not an...
176 days ago
Special report: SCS recruitment
...ernal progression for talented staff. Professor John Benington, an emeritus profes...the civil service by the coalition leaders. Sir John Elvidge, the former permanent...ary at the Home Office when home secretary John Reid condemned it as “not fi...
110 days ago
John Vine is to inspect the UK Borders AgencyA copper for nearly 30 years, John Vine now has quite a different job: he tells Matt Ross how he’s establishing a brand new inspectorate to examine the political minefield of immigration and border controlsGiving evidence to the home affairs select c...
Tags: beverley hughes, charles clarke, john reid, human rights in the uk, uk border control
749 days ago
Normington calls for capability review reform
Sir David at TIDThe capability review process is a powerful driver for change, Home Office permanent secretary Sir David Normington has said – but the system should more clearly recognise the differences between departments’ roles and situations.The capability review process is a powerful dri...
Tags: charles clarke, david normington, john reid, Home Office, capability reviews
749 days ago
