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Continuity and Change in the Civil Service III: Changing Accountability

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 […]

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

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 […]

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

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 […]

Continuity and Change in the Civil Service III: Changing Accountability

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

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

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