All posts tagged "special advisers"

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  Johnson forges ahead with civil service shake-up

  UK prime minister Boris Johnson is moving policy advisers out of Downing Street and into the Cabinet Office as part of wider plans to ensure that No 10, the Treasury

  • Posted August 14, 2020
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  UK Cabinet secretary ousted as fears grow over politicisation of the civil service

  Sir Mark Sedwill, who has served as Cabinet secretary and head of the UK civil service since 2018, and national security adviser (NSA) since 2017, is to stand down in

  • Posted June 29, 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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  Cummings extends grip over special advisers with central recruitment

  UK PM Boris Johnson and his chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, are shaking up the way ministerial aides are appointed, in what is seen as yet another move towards central control.

  • Posted March 1, 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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  Northern Ireland’s biggest party broke the law in appointing special advisers, inquiry hears

  Northern Ireland’s leading loyalist party routinely broke the law in how it appointed ministerial special advisors, a public inquiry has heard. The inquiry was set up last year to examine

  • Posted October 1, 2018
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