All posts tagged "Northern Ireland Civil Service"

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  Civil service launches menopause policy in drive to support staff

  The Northern Ireland Civil Service is to step up its support for women going through the menopause with a new policy and programme to raise awareness and understanding, and outline

  • Posted March 20, 2022
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  Clare Moriarty and David Sterling recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours

  Two recently-retired UK civil service chiefs, Clare Moriarty and David Sterling, have been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list. Moriarty – who’s quoted in GGF’s latest Brexit analysis – left

  • Posted October 12, 2020
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  Simon Case named as new UK Cabinet secretary

  Simon Case is to replace Sir Mark Sedwill as Cabinet secretary and head of the UK civil service, prime minister Boris Johnson confirmed on Tuesday. In May, Case – a

  • Posted September 1, 2020
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  Inquiry pulls out lessons from Northern Ireland’s energy scheme scandal

  Northern Ireland’s Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme – whose botched handling led to the three-year collapse of the region’s administration – was a “project too far” for the NI Executive

  • Posted March 17, 2020
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  Elected representatives return to Northern Ireland Assembly

  Civil servants in Northern Ireland are to once again work under the direction of elected leaders, three years after the province’s government was dissolved. The stalemate between the region’s two

  • Posted January 13, 2020
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  Public services “crying out” for political leadership, says Northern Ireland’s civil service chief

  Civil servants are used to working without ministers during election campaigns or coalition negotiations. But Northern Ireland’s officials have been without elected leaders for two and a half years –

  • Posted July 31, 2019
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  Digital toolkit to provide platform software for Northern Ireland public bodies

  The Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS) has let a new contract for its digital toolkit service, with its Department of Finance (DoF) signing a deal with a technology company to

  • Posted April 14, 2019
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  UK signals greater powers for Northern Ireland civil servants

  The UK government intends to give civil servants in Northern Ireland greater powers to make decisions in the absence of local elected leaders, the Westminster administration’s minister for the province

  • Posted September 12, 2018
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  Court ruling: key Northern Ireland decisions must await new power-sharing executive

  Civil servants in Northern Ireland did not have the power to grant planning permission for the construction of an incinerator by council waste management coalition arc21, the Court of Appeal

  • Posted July 11, 2018
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  UK issues ‘final deadline’ for Stormont deal

  Northern Ireland secretary James Brokenshire has given Sinn Fein and the Democratic Unionist Party a final warning after months of wrangling, insisting that they must agree a new power-sharing deal

  • Posted October 25, 2017
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