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Some operational efficiency

...recommends setting up a high-level official group, which I will chair as an independent. That group will be sponsored by the Treasury minister Yvette Cooper, communities secretary Hazel...

753 days ago

The public finance initiative?

...t it was significant enough for the Treasury to commit to acting as lender of last resort for schemes in urgent need. Treasury chief secretary Yvette Cooper insisted that committing taxp...

753 days ago

News

Partners in crime

...established SOCA, he recalls – although he does add that most were cooperative.Tarique Ghaffur was assi...se of the 20 per cent cuts in policing budgets, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said recently. She added that...

144 days ago

Leaked email causes embarrassment for Foreign Office and UKTI

...pictured above) appears to prioritise UKTI spending power over prudent use of public funds, have drawn criticism from shadow foreign secretary Yvette Cooper, who suggested that FCO finan...

179 days ago

Features

Who’s watching your back?

...nd the government, and shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper is shrewdly stepping into the..., and there are tensions in the new model.”Cooper raised similar concerns, addi...e base – and this frustration explains why Cooper’s proposal for an independe...

123 days ago

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Out of the darkness

...h his boss at the beginning of the Brown premiership in June 2007. YVETTE COOPER, CHIEF SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY Special Adviser Will MacdonaldWill McDonald served as Yvette Cooper’s special adviser during he...

179 days ago

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Some operational efficiency

Sir Michael BichardJoined-up local services, fewer targets and frontline engagement will be key to surviving the recession, says Operational Efficiency Programme co-author Sir Michael BichardThe fact that the public sector is facing unprecedented challenges is fast becoming a cliché. Too often,...

Tags: yvette cooper, hazel blears, liam byrne, budget 2009, restructuring of civil service

753 days ago

The public finance initiative?

Skye Bridge: The first, and most controversial, PFI projectThe Treasury has had to lend public funds to Private Finance Initiative schemes hit by the credit crunch. Matthew O’Toole explores how the controversial system has resulted in such an apparent paradoxThe maelstrom that has enveloped the...

Tags: yvette cooper, government spending, pfi/ppp, financial management and analysis, reform of public services

753 days ago