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By Colin Talbot Filed Under: Whitehall Watch Posted:
The government is very proud of its Work Programme. It is especially proud of the fact that the WPs private sector providers are only paid on the basis of individual outcomes – do the participants get a “long term” job.
By Colin Talbot Filed Under: Whitehall Watch Posted:
With most economists now forecasting that Britain will officially re-enter recession in Q1 2012, the Chancellor will be under immense pressure by the time of the Budget on 21st March to at least be seen to be doing ‘something’ about the economy.
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By Colin Talbot Filed Under: Whitehall Watch Posted:
A new report from the National Audit Office examines the British governments attempts to reorganise “arms-length bodies” in the UK. One of the central conclusions is that the reorganisation is dragging many of the functions of these bodies back to the ‘centre’ and closer to political control – in other words a big shift from […]
By Colin Talbot Filed Under: Whitehall Watch Posted:
There is often more continuity between themselves and their predecessors than any new Government cares to admit. One way they seek to disguise these continuities is to change the names of things, with minimal change to the actual thing itself, whether it’s a policy, a system or an organisation.
By Colin Talbot Filed Under: Whitehall Watch Posted:
Watch out for the word “implementation” in 2012. It’s the new in-word in Whitehall.
By Colin Talbot Filed Under: Whitehall Watch Posted:
Today (20 Jan 2012) the Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) published a scathing attack on the re-organisation at the top of the Civil Service that took place over Christmas.
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1st Posted on Huffington Post (UK): 9/1/12 18:43 GMT Does the SNP really want a free, democratic, Scotland? If so they are everything they can to ensure it may, just, become independent but is unlikely to be a genuine democracy.
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By Colin Talbot Filed Under: Whitehall Watch Posted:
Tonight (Thursday 22) and tomorrow the BBC Radio 4 PM programme will carry items by reporter Andrew Bomford about how greater Manchester has fared over the past year in the face of a sluggish economy and large public spending cuts. It’s based on a report we wrote for them on the impact of the cuts […]