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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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Continuity and Change in the Civil Service II: How SPADs and Tsars are changing the Whitehall landscape

Colin Talbot By Colin Talbot Filed Under: Featured, Whitehall Watch Posted: January 16, 2015

The UK has had a clear dividing line between its political and administrative leadership. In the third post in our series examining the current state of the Civil Service, Professor Colin Talbot argues that the rise of the SPAD and the Tsar is changing this. Special advisors – or SPADs, to use their common acronym […]

Tagged With: Civil Service Reform Plan, Extended Ministerial Offices, Politically Appointed Counsellors, Senior Civil Service, SPADs, Special Advisors, tsars, Whitehall Tsars

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Continuity and Change in the Civil Service I: Is “Sir Humphrey” history?

Colin Talbot By Colin Talbot Filed Under: Featured, Whitehall Watch Posted: January 12, 2015

Over the coming weeks Policy@Manchester will run a series of blogs exploring the role of the Civil Service and how it works with Government Ministers. In the first, Colin Talbot explores whether  “Sir Humphrey” is no more. Has the Civil Service moved away from the image of the public school, Oxbridge, pale, male and stale […]

Tagged With: Civil Service College, Fast Stream, Next Step agencies, Northcote programme, Oughton report, Professional Skills for Government Programme, Senior Civil Service, Top Management Programme, Trevelyan programme

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