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Partners and Exhibitors - Catelyns House
...learning and development and consultancy services to government and other sectors. Our speciality is learning how to work effectively with Parliament, in particular Select Committ...
The National Audit Office scrutinises public spending on behalf of Parliament. We promote the highest standards in financial management and reporting, the proper conduct of public busin...
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Sponsored feature: Be prepared for Select Committee success
...oodison explains how. There was a time when Parliamentary Select Committees were onl...t, and they seem to embody a re-emergence of Parliament’s authority following t...oodison states. “They are broadcast on Parliament TV, and really significant is...
...cluding the launch of the Higher Education White Paper, and a range of good work on the Growth Review. Steering the Postal Services Bill through Parliament was also a landmark achieveme...
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Perhaps the PM should listen to his new crime adviser before he talks 'zero tolerance'?
Spot the difference: David Cameron speaking to the Daily Telegraph, August 2011: “We haven’t talked the language of zero tolerance enough but the message is...
Too big a gamble to bet the house on
...ts – a process set to speed up in the new year, now that Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has piloted his Superannuation Bill through Parliament. These cuts will be very pain...
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MoJ criticised for late accounts
...ommittee.” He later called the delay “lamentable”.Committee chair Margaret Hodge said: “As chair of the committee that is accountable to Parliament and the public, it’s not ac...
Ricketts defends principle of civil servant, not minister, holding national security role
...that his job should be held by a civil servant rather than a minister for national security, both in a CSW interview and in an appearance before Parliament’s Joint Committee on th...
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Opinion: Ian Watmore - The way forward for procurement
...ities management pipeline, which will give suppliers in these sectors a clearer picture of the future contractual landscape for the rest of this Parliament. We committed to updating thi...
...inet and the Cabinet Office. Further chapters cover the Executive and Parliament; the Executive and the law; m...as Gordon Brown did) until it is clear who commands the confidence of Parliament;What counts as a confidence m...
Interviews
...but behind the scenes, he is something of a reformer – at least on parliamentary scrutiny. The government i...nterests of government and the intelligence agencies to have a strong parliamentary committee taking an intere...
...r after he was first elected to Parliament. “At that stage, select com...are in the “golden age” of parliamentary scrutiny. The fact that no...s the individual accountable to Parliament. Similarly, rather than let I...e. “This is new territory for Parliament,” he says. “Parliament is...
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...hing through an ambitious cuts programme that hasn’t yet reached its punishing peak, that’s probably not a great way to kick off the 2011-12 Parliament.
...ations against them. Democratic oversight would be ensured by seeking parliamentary approval for each NPS –...rtable with the way the system works around the role of ministers and Parliament,” explains Kerslake. This c...
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...chell, a deputy director in the Department of Health’s finance group, outlined three main ways in which government uses information: to enable Parliament and the public to hold it to...
...Sorkin, who chaired the discussion, asked what kind of data must be gathered to ensure that accounting officers provide accurate information to Parliament.The Home Office’s Kelly ans...
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The coalition special advisers
...leader since he was a Member of the European Parliament. There, she worked as spokesp...okesperson for the President of the European Parliament, Pat Cox.Returning to the UK...Truro MP Matthew Taylor. She was elected to Parliament herself in 2005, and shadowed...
Special report: The hard road ahead
...a successful judicial review by the PCS union. A new level of redundancy pay is being set by the Superannuation Bill, currently passing through Parliament. Cabinet Office minister Fran...
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...r Explained is the training division of Dods Parliamentary Communications and the leading private sector provider of training on Parliament, government and policy. Over...open courses focus on subject areas such as Parliament, government, management and l...
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Senior figures look to '74 election
The cabinet secretary has circulated a memo dating from 1974 on plans for a hung Parliament, according to newspaper reports. The document, seen by the Guardian and written by the then-principal private secretary to prime minister Edward Heath, Robert Armstrong – who later served as cabinet sec...
Tags: general elections, uk parliament, leadership and management
Cameron outlines plan to reform Parliament
The Conservative leader has pledged to deliver a radical shake-up of the parliamentary system in a bid to win back voters' trust after the expenses scandal.In an in-depth article in the Guardian, David Cameron wrote that he will curb the power of the prime minister and boost the role of Parliamen...
Tags: uk parliament, house of commons
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...inistration & Management to support Ministers rather than totally being "next Door" to them. Technology verses distance New verses Old Parliament/ Ministerial Support We ne...