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Continuity and Change in the Civil Service III: Changing Accountability

Colin Talbot By Colin Talbot Filed Under: Featured, Whitehall Watch Posted: January 21, 2015

The unwritten British constitution as it affects Civil Service accountability – especially to Parliament – is going through an incremental, but very significant, change, argues Professor Colin Talbot. At the heart of the British constitution lies the concept of separation of the administrative elite from the political elite. This is very different from other countries […]

Tagged With: Comptroller and Auditor General, Foreign Affairs Select Committee, Gus O'Donnell, Haldane Report, Margaret Hodge, National Audit Office, Northcote-Trevelyan Report, Osmotherly Rules, parliament, Peter Hennessy, Politically Appointed Counsellors, Public Accounts Committee, Scrutiny Unit, Senior Civil Service, US Congess

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