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Agenda for Public Service Modernisation
...ny of the controls built up over decades. The regional level of government is being...ig Society and payment by results all require policy making to change significantly. But many questions still remain. For each policy issue, how much power should...
...er, HM Treasury); Stephen Radley (Director of Policy, EEF); Marc O'Brien, Managing D...to applying theory to live organisational and policy challenges in order to analys...ny of the controls built up over decades. The regional level of government is bein...
Top-level pages
...department is responsible for the policy regarding agriculture, rural de...ation, consumer affairs, economic policy development, energy, workplace...t of the Executive.Department for Regional Development (DRD)Its goal i....” Responsibilities include regional strategic planning and deve...
...r of our staff moved to new jobs in different policy areas, bringing new ways of wor...inable growth and jobs for this country. Our policy agenda - from investing in hi...ounced £950 million investment from the Regional Growth Fund to boost local...
Blog posts
...and officials clash over responsibilities and policy conflicts. The most ob...’s business department; but for Lib Dem policy, this battle may already be l...secretary Eric Pickles has pledged to axe the regional development agencies &ndash...
News
Sir Gus defends civil service against criticisms over ‘pace’
...vice is delivering the message that it can’t happen now on, say, the Regional Growth Fund – I know that...message they’re wanting to get across is: ‘Look, we’ve got a big policy reform agenda. We’ve really...
...nd co-ordinate efforts to tackle serious and organised crime. In 1998, regional crime squads were merged into...ocurement across police forces. Neil O’Brien, director of think tank Policy Exchange (see interview) says...
Analysis_opinion
Localism goes right to the top
....Taking this latter point first, the dismantling of the government’s regional infrastructure weakens our ab...own powers to the localism agenda that is most deeply undermining the policy. Sometimes, ministers’ loca...
Don’t wreck government; reform it
...al people, he must demolish all the layers of regional organisation: spatial strateg...n-making about infrastructure and growth.With regional structures disappearing, yawn...stronger than ever. But the growing number of policy U-turns, and the emergence of...
Interviews
.... This is not, she emphasises, about creating regional government, nor forced reorga...to be writing really good bills and fantastic policy because – and this is no cr...in Westminster.”Sustaining this quality of policy-making with a small workforce...
...how we get the differentiation right between policy and operations,” she comments...we have done something similar with identity policy.”IPS also works closely wit...closed: some have been re-sited at the seven regional IPS offices, while other in...
Features
...nment would produce ‘national policy statements’ (NPSs) setting ou...d clear statement of government policy that they will take fully into...e infrastructure necessary at a regional or sub-regional level, however, the picture...Although the National Planning Policy Framework is still in draft f...
Charity begins in the buyer’s office
...ruggle: Chris Heathcote, a senior policy adviser at the Confederation of...s because, as Ceri Jones, head of policy and research at the Social En...nitial contracting phase for big, regional suppliers who could provide...opinions.Chris Heathcote, senior policy adviser at the CBI, says that...
Round_tables
Round table: New job description
...the nature of its interaction with local and regional government is to fundamentall...hieve in their areas. Hannah Boardman, senior policy adviser in the Cabinet Office...thering data on these aspects of departmental policy, and “the more information...
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Groups
...d) that has ensured equality thinking is done as a matter of course in policy making and service delivery....sity Committee of the British Missions in Turkey and Brian Cook of the Regional Training Centre in Prague...
...ring best practice and shaping and delivering policy. Follow this group to be kept...ice Live please visit the website. * Regional events are scheduled througho...ails will follow - contact Kevin Sorkin about regional locations. ** If you are i...
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Regional governance faces an uncertain futureJust as the government is implementing major reforms in regional government, the Tories are promising another overhaul if they get into power. Matthew O’Toole looks at how assemblies and RDAs are adaptingRegional governance in England is changing –...
Tags: Phyllis Starkey, regional policy
Tories plan 'radical decentralisation'
Cameron says he is a 'committed localist'The Conservatives have trailed plans for a 'radical' shift of power away from WhitehallCentral government would lose the right to push through major infrastructure projects such as airports and power stations under plans being trailed by the Cons...
Tags: caroline spelman, david cameron, john healey, local government, Planning, regional policy
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