All posts tagged "minister"

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  Ministerial code no longer working and needs overhaul, warns UK think tank

  The UK’s ministerial code, which establishes the standards that govern ministers’ behaviour, needs to be “overhauled” and underpinned by statute, according to a leading think tank.  Multiple incidents – including

  • Posted July 8, 2021
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  Ministers should set UK departmental leaders’ goals, says reform commission

  The renewal of UK permanent secretaries’ contracts should be based upon their performance against goals set out by ministers, a think tank has advised in a report backed by Cabinet

  • Posted May 25, 2021
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  Ministers must be challenged on misleading statements, says former cabinet secretary

  Former cabinet secretary Lord O’Donnell today expressed frustration with ministers who make false statements or skew statistics, a trend he says is eroding public trust in government. Speaking at an

  • Posted March 17, 2021
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  UK appointments regulator condemns briefings against civil servants

  First civil service commissioner Ian Watmore condemned briefings against civil servants today. “I absolutely, absolutely hate it,” he told an online evidence session for the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs

  • Posted March 16, 2021
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  Algorithms & accountabilities: an interview with Jonathan Slater, former UK education chief

  Last year, the Department for Education’s use of an algorithm to decide exam results generated huge public anger, resulting in the departure of permanent secretary Jonathan Slater. He tells Matt

  • Posted February 26, 2021
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  Use your intelligence: former UK spy chief on good decisions and poor information

  These days, the public discourse is awash with fake news; but intelligence operatives have always worked in an environment of uncertainty and incomplete data. At a lecture last week, former

  • Posted November 6, 2020
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  Former UK chancellor suggests appointing business leaders to civil service jobs

  Figures from business could be brought into top civil service management roles, former UK chancellor George Osborne has told an influential UK civil service reform panel. Osborne was speaking at

  • Posted November 5, 2020
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  UK PM’s chief adviser ‘getting in the way’ of good government, says union chief

  The behaviour of UK PM Boris Johnson’s chief adviser is harming departments’ ability to deliver the government’s objectives, FDA general secretary Dave Penman has told Global Government Forum. “What’s been

  • Posted February 21, 2020
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  Impartiality under threat: a warning from former UK Cabinet secretary Gus O’Donnell

  Impartiality is a cornerstone of Westminster-style civil services – but in the UK it’s under threat, Lord O’Donnell warned last month. Mia Hunt hears him explain the seven key benefits

  • Posted November 15, 2019
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  Scott Brison expands on Canada’s plan to adopt ‘results and delivery approach’

  The minister responsible for Canada’s public service has expanded on the government’s plan to create a culture focused on results and delivery in a speech to senior officials. Canada’s new

  • Posted June 6, 2016
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