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This is the memo sent from Sir Gus O'Donnell to then prime minister Gordon Brown on the possibility of setting up an inquiry into phone hacking.
208 days ago
Civil Service Live Media Pack 2011
...SB) acts as a steering board for this event. Last year Civil Service Live brought together over 500 speakers and 8,000 delegates including the Prime Minister and the Cabinet.
341 days ago
...; - brought to you by Visa The Prime Minister has said that the Governme...pects for economic growth? The Prime Minister has said that the Government...ory board to the Indian finance minister during the recession which ke...vernment to deliver growth The Prime Minister has said that the Gover...
224 days ago
...eliver to real needs. Hear from Ministers on the new approach and j...ionate way benefitting you, your Ministers and the people you serve....overnment to deliver growth The Prime Minister has said that the Gover...th - brought to you by Visa The Prime Minister has said that the Government...
214 days ago
...rnment, and I was hugely proud to hear the prime minister outline what he sees as th...nit – a team providing advice to the prime minister and deputy prime minister on...there had been no personnel changes in the prime minister’s private office since...
53 days ago
...uality. And before you ask, I only managed to get tickets for beach volleyball! How is the civil service likely to change during 2012?The prime minister recently told senior civil se...
53 days ago
Too big a gamble to bet the house on
...y the coalition. To the surprise of some new ministers, the civil service has de...sh; and in the process, won the trust of the prime minister, the deputy PM and their key...briefing, journalists were told that “ministers have not asked for any advic...
419 days ago
...liband sat awaiting his first Prime Minister’s Questions as Labou...quo;s Treasury questions, the prime minister said he hopes that Ed “...citizens, while a Tory prime minister defended the cut as a way to...the NHS, she said; could the prime minister reassure the house that...
482 days ago
Sir Gus defends civil service against criticisms over ‘pace’
...r.’ It’s a tough job for us. Ministers would love to see it happ...a response to a speech by deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, in which Clegg la...ter the coalition’s formation, ministers had asked officials to exami...that’s frustrating him and the prime minister. And there are good rea...
49 days ago
Six new ‘spads’ for Nick Clegg
The deputy prime minister’s office is to appoint six new special advisers, or...ohn Foster, who was researcher for social care minister Paul Burstow, has...end of the year, a spokesperson for the Deputy Prime Minister told CSW. The department has...
63 days ago
...rvants must do their bit – but ministers must also play a key role...across the civil service – the prime minister praised civil servants for re...edged that this is a tall order: ministers typically want to start and...ce reform, Jenkin was clear that ministerial engagement will be vital:...
67 days ago
...er.Events turned out differently. We had to wait five days for a new prime minister to be appointed, and we had t...he 2007 election, officials were allowed to provide information to a minister from one coalition party with...
81 days ago
...dia are hungry to run stories of ‘splits’ – so “even the best ministers, who come in with the bes...Stream in 1996, soon found herself working for Tony Blair’s deputy prime minister John Prescott as he pushed fo...
11 days ago
...vernment, at least at the most senior levels. “When Tony Blair was prime minister and Gordon Brown was chancell...overnment finance directors,” Pulham says. However, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude wants the gover...
28 days ago
...second presentation was from former cabinet minister James Purnell, now an advi...rs, chief executive of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, New Zealand, als...rs, chief executive of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, New Zealan...
47 days ago
...these times of austerity that the government estate has found itself a prime target for the Cabinet Office...e central estate. A ‘control regime’ established by Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude means that depa...
77 days ago
Unlocking services and locking data
...he idea’s bones in July’s Open Public Services white paper, the prime minister said he envisages devolvin...’ll be delivered by a range of different providers.Of course, the prime minister’s proposed reforms are not...
133 days ago
...tThe group met just days after senior Labour ministers published the high-profil...said, should even have the power to confront ministerial interests. “If there is...of government, as recently clarified by the prime minister, is to move not just some, bu...
179 days ago
Special report: SCS recruitment
...n first few months of 2010; or Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has been qui...dquo; Normington says. “Finance was the prime example around 2005-’06, w...he civil service will try its best to realise ministers’ ambitions with fewer...
113 days ago
An exclusive club: special adviser analysis
...nd tried to put her a long way away from the prime minister’s room.” However, while u...visers who genuinely know the minds of their ministers – rather than those who as...chief whip, and Baroness Warsi, the cabinet minister without portfolio. Nonetheles...
179 days ago
Civil Service Live 2010 - The Prime Minister's Keynote Speech
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557 days ago
Comment on "Brown takes on teenage Mums"
YWCA welcomes the Prime Minister’s recognition that teenage mothers need support. This is something we, and other organisations, have been providing in practice for many years...859 days ago
Comment on "A Map for the Future?"
...it controls made public. It is very sad to see that following the Prime Minister’s announcement and Sir...rsquo;s inspiring intervention, Royal Mail with the support of their minister, are dragging their feet over...715 days ago
