Policymaking — Civil Service World

PASC: Train ministers and civil servants in open policy making 5 June, 2013

Civil servants should be given specific training to support greater public engagement in policy-making, according to a select...
Commons committee backs code of standards for legislation 23 May, 2013

Parliament and government should agree a Code of Legislative Standards to improve the quality of laws produced at Westminster,...
An engine for economic growth 14 May, 2013

Aeronautics are a good example of a new form of partnership between government and industry. Suzannah Brecknell looks at...
Establish body to vet policies, says O’Donnell 10 May, 2013

New policies should be vetted by an independent body before taking effect, former cabinet secretary Lord O’Donnell has...
FDA: Open policymaking danger 10 May, 2013

The government’s move into ‘contestable policymaking’ could damage the quality and impartiality of the advice received...
Our man in Brazil: Alex Ellis 2 May, 2013

Alex Ellis has just left his post as the FCO’s director of strategy to become ambassador to Brazil. On his last day in...
Frontline: Charity support worker 2 May, 2013

A tenant support worker employed by a charity says benefit reforms are causing unnecessary suffering. “I work for a charity...
Interview: Stephen Lovegrove 1 May, 2013

New DECC chief Stephen Lovegrove has, to his evident relief, missed all the big battles over the direction of our energy...
DECC will be second department to outsource policymaking work 1 May, 2013

The Department of Energy and Climate Change is set to become the second Whitehall body to buy in policy development work...
Editorial: Civil servants have built a telescope 25 April, 2013

Let’s hope ministers don’t put it to their blind eye It is an entertaining irony that the scrapping of the Cabinet Office’s...