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Agenda for Employee Engagement and Change Management

...al Andrew Graham, Ministry of Defence.     11....ry to live organisational and policy challenges in order to analyse...mpact. Paul Lincoln, Head of Defence & Security Policy, Cabinet Office &nbs...king is the right way to make policy and protect Government from c...

221 days ago

Agenda Day 2, 6 July

...utions, Lt General Andrew Graham, Ministry of Defence.     12....accountability, local decision making,  policy implementation and community...02 to work on Business Models and Operational Policy before moving into Programme/...

218 days ago

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Appointments and Moves: 25 Jan 2012

...r last year, alongside her previous role of Cabinet Office director of policy communications. Before joining...rtner, has been appointed as a non-executive member of the Ministry of Defence board, and chair of the depa...

12 days ago

The Cretheus Project Team

...Procurement Award Shortlist The Cretheus Project Team, Ministry of Defence Although the UK has the pote...he degradation wind farms cause to radar performance results in an MOD policy objecting to windfarm plannin...

125 days ago

Blog posts

The coalition bear hug

...nd international development from the squeeze; it will also go easy on defence and education. The picture fo...spending review.   Perhaps the coalition really can realise its policy objectives while imposing the...

582 days ago

Odd couples

...and officials clash over responsibilities and policy conflicts.   The most o...’s business department; but for Lib Dem policy, this battle may already be l...interesting, for example, to see how hawkish defence secretary Liam Fox gets on w...

629 days ago

News

Jenkin: new PASC report on Whitehall 'hard-hitting and brutal'

...g on a report it published last year which argued that in the field of defence and security, nobody is directly responsible for strategic thinking on national policy.Of that report, Jenkin said:...

138 days ago

Partners in crime

...the Department for Transport; the Ministry of Defence; and the Ministry of Justice....l boundaries,” adding that “the Strategic Defence and Security Review highlight...orces. Neil O’Brien, director of think tank Policy Exchange (see interview) says...

144 days ago

Analysis_opinion

Opinion: Civil service talk

...mes, these words are useful shorthand. More often, though, they’re a defence mechanism. We use them to sho... although on closer inspection, that seems to be the Bible’s actual policy. The simple, confident, unequ...

33 days ago

Editorial

...guys in charge, and to ensure that government policy is sensible, coordinated, and...t via an American court case. The Ministry of Defence is, of course, very comfortab...block moves towards greater transparency. The defence secretary, for all his fault...

105 days ago

Interviews

Interview: Bob Kerslake and Jeremy Heywood

...e of unprecedented financial, policy and political challenges. Matt...We’ve moved from a phase of policy design into a phase of policy...t as budgetary, political and policy pressures grow. “I’m as p...t he oversee the Ministry of Defence? “The MoD could have gone...

6 days ago

Interview: Adrian Pulham

...vice way, they were excellent policy people but they didn’t neces...ears ago when the Ministry of Defence, the last without a qualified...eams playing second fiddle to policy experts. “It remains the ca...e director of the Ministry of Defence, Jon Thompson, and the curre...

28 days ago

Features

Planes, trains and meals on wheels

...d to a Cabinet Office Procurement Policy Note (PPN) published last mont...ey are engaging with the EU on “policy issues with a procurement ang...disagrees, saying: “The mutuals policy is currently alive and well,...directive changed the rules about defence procurement, for example, so...

139 days ago

There and back again

...ets of Whitehall. The Ministry of Defence’s assistant head of support...n city of Kandahar. There he gave policy advice, and reported back to t...m. I acted as a lightning rod for policy and political decisions,” h...vice jobs within] the Ministry of Defence, which you might have though...

168 days ago

Round_tables

Safe journey

...on James from the Ministry of Defence’s Network Technical Authori...h as GCHQ and the Ministry of Defence are unlikely to put all their...our own staff view them. Our policy is not to reply to Twitter [co...hnical Authority, Ministry of DefenceMaqbool Lalljee,unit head, La...

98 days ago

Unlocking services and locking data

...tion, said Melanie McGrory, an HP defence and security specialist, “I...rought up to date with government policy, but agreed that new governanc...which oversees central government policy on information assurance for...e that happens in the Ministry of Defence, I think that would be benef...

133 days ago

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Special report: How efficient is your department?

...on was needed to house new staff working on a policy area that has transfered to DE...ding those for work and pensions, justice and defence – did not provide figures f...m (the environment department and Ministry of Defence are most efficient, accordin...

89 days ago

Special report: SCS recruitment

...t, are probably largely media policy specialists. When business sec...ear and lost control of media policy, senior civil servants were tr...2010, the arrival of a set of policy and communications profession...n’s ambitions move from policy work to implementation, any s...

113 days ago

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Turnbull attacks Dannatt 'major error'

Lord TurnbullThe former cabinet secretary has attacked Richard Dannatt's Tory appointment as a "major error"The former cabinet secretary has attacked the Tories' appointment of General Richard Dannatt as a “major error of judgment”. Lord Turnbull, Sir Gus O’Donnell’s immedi...

Tags: andrew turnbull, cabinet, Leadership and Management, Ministry of Defence, british armed forces, uk defence policy

753 days ago

Concerns over MoD emergency buying

Concerns over MoD emergency buyingThe Ministry of Defence has relied too much on emergency procurement, MPs have saidThe Ministry of Defence (MoD) has relied too much on the emergency procurement of equipment, a report from MPs has said. The Commons public accounts committee says the department h...

Tags: edward leigh, defence equipment and weapon systems, uk defence policy, Procurement

753 days ago

Comments

Comment on "Keeping information safe in the Big Society"

...t. Highlights from the discussion included: Melanie McGrory, an HP defence and security specialist, call...sing data on individuals.Attendees agreed that a more "outcomes based" policy and a sensible attitude to ri...

138 days ago