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    Policy

    Keep up-to-date with the latest Policy news from Civil Service World
    Home Office perm sec sets out plans to tackle compliance ‘weaknesses’
    08 May Policy

    Home Office perm sec sets out plans to tackle compliance ‘weaknesses’

    Antonia Romeo tells MPs multi-million-pound asylum-accommodation failings exposed need for “incentivised culture-change”
    by CSW staff
    MP tables ‘real’ Hillsborough Law with duty of candour for civil servants
    03 Jul Policy
    MP tables ‘real’ Hillsborough Law with duty of candour for civil servants
    Susan Acland-Hood and Gareth Davies named joint heads of policy profession
    02 Jul Policy
    Susan Acland-Hood and Gareth Davies named joint heads of policy profession
    Vision and trust: Why open government is critical to achieving ministers' missions
    30 Jun Policy
    Vision and trust: Why open government is critical to achieving ministers' missions
    Education Funding Agency under fire over misspent schools cash
    27 Jun 2014 Policy
    Education Funding Agency under fire over misspent schools cash

    The Education Funding Agency (EFA) needs to get “to grips with effective oversight to improve public confidence in the system,” the Public Accounts Committee warned in a report.


    PAC: DWP’s failure to pilot benefit scheme led to ‘unnecessary distress for claimants’
    20 Jun 2014 Policy
    PAC: DWP’s failure to pilot benefit scheme led to ‘unnecessary distress for claimants’

    The Department for Work and Pensions’ failure to pilot its Personal Independence Payment (PIP) programme has led to delays, backlogs and “unnecessary distress for claimants”, according to a report published today by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).


    UKBA was ‘never going to work’, says former chief
    20 Jun 2014 Policy
    UKBA was ‘never going to work’, says former chief

    The former UK Border Agency (UKBA) was doomed to fail due to its sheer scale and constant media attention, its former chief executive Rob Whiteman has said.


    PAC: DCLG failed to consider alternatives before committing £10bn to Help to Buy scheme
    18 Jun 2014 Policy
    PAC: DCLG failed to consider alternatives before committing £10bn to Help to Buy scheme

    The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has committed to spending up to £10bn on the government’s Help to Buy scheme without establishing whether it represents the most effective way of using taxpayers’ money, the Public Accounts Committee have said in a report published on 18 July.


    Jil Matheson: ‘End pre-release’
    18 Jun 2014 Policy
    Jil Matheson: ‘End pre-release’

    The outgoing National Statistician has called for an end to the practice of giving ministers access to official statistics before their release.


    Editorial: Any inquiry must be system-wide
    05 Jun 2014 Policy
    Editorial: Any inquiry must be system-wide

    Bernard Jenkin, chair of the Public Administration Select Committee, has been championing an inquiry into the future of the civil service – but former cabinet secretaries Lord Gus O'Donnell and Andrew Turnbull believe that any inquiry should also encompass politicians’ failures. CSW editor Matt Ross maps out a path to a very big think about our system of government


    O'Donnell and Turnbull say any inquiry must examine politicians, not just civil servants
    03 Jun 2014 Policy
    O'Donnell and Turnbull say any inquiry must examine politicians, not just civil servants

    An inquiry needs to be held into the political process and the flaws in our system of government, two former cabinet secretaries have told Civil Service World. Their call comes after some politicians and other key figures have called for an inquiry into the future of the civil service.



     


    Get UK online, says think-tank
    29 May 2014 Policy
    Get UK online, says think-tank

    Policy Exchange, a right-leaning think-tank, has called on the government to spend £875m on digitally educating the 6.2m people who aren’t currently using the internet, bringing Britain’s entire population online by 2020.


    Gus attacks outsourcing of policy advice
    16 May 2014 Policy
    Gus attacks outsourcing of policy advice

    Ministers commissioning policy advice directly from external bodies is “dangerous, because it risks giving the job to a body that is not objective,” former cabinet secretary Lord O’Donnell has said.


    Select committee attacks ‘flawed’ horizon-scanning programme
    16 May 2014 Policy
    Select committee attacks ‘flawed’ horizon-scanning programme

    The government’s new horizon-scanning programme is “flawed” and contains “substantial weaknesses,” according to the Science and Technology Select Committee.


    16 May 2014 Policy
    MPs ask for Afghanistan review

    The government should conduct a comprehensive review of its interventions in Afghanistan in 2001, the Commons’ Defence Committee said in a report on Tuesday. This should encompass not just military operations, but all the UK’s work under the NATO and UN missions.


    16 May 2014 Policy
    Call for TTIP comms plan

    The Lords’ European Union Committee has called for the creation of a cross-government communications strategy regarding the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) – a proposed free trade agreement between the EU and the US.


    Lack of clarity in election rules causing problems, says IfG
    08 May 2014 Policy
    Lack of clarity in election rules causing problems, says IfG

    A lack of clarity on pre-election rules are causing officials to “do things on the sly for ministers”, according to the Institute for Government (IfG), which has this week published a report into the final year of the coalition government.


    Policy/delivery gap highlighted
    30 Apr 2014 Policy
    Policy/delivery gap highlighted

    Civil service policymakers still need to improve their focus on outcomes and policy implementation, two top officials have said


    Nearly half of senior civil servants failing to use academic research to help shape policymaking
    30 Apr 2014 Policy
    Nearly half of senior civil servants failing to use academic research to help shape policymaking

    Nearly half (41%) of senior civil servants rarely or never use academic research, according to researchers from the University of Manchester


    Eurozone creates test for CS, says Cahn
    25 Apr 2014 Policy
    Eurozone creates test for CS, says Cahn

    The civil service must fight for Britain’s economic interests in Europe, even in the absence of a coherent government EU policy, the former chief executive of UK Trade & Investment has said.


    BIS and digital team reveal cross-Whitehall ICT inclusion strategy
    17 Apr 2014 Policy
    BIS and digital team reveal cross-Whitehall ICT inclusion strategy

    The Government Digital Service (GDS) and the business department (BIS) will establish a cross-government digital capability and skills programme to help citizens use digital services.


    DE&S finally wins pay freedoms
    16 Apr 2014 Policy
    DE&S finally wins pay freedoms

    The Ministry of Defence’s Defence, Equipment and Support (DE&S) division was this month turned into an arm’s-length body and given an exemption from Treasury salary controls and civil service-wide promotion criteria.


    Labour plans Fast Stream targets to improve BME recruitment
    16 Apr 2014 Policy
    Labour plans Fast Stream targets to improve BME recruitment

    A Labour government would set targets for the proportion of people from BME and working class backgrounds joining the Fast Stream, as part of a drive to improve diversity across the civil service.


    Appointments reform ruled out
    16 Apr 2014 Policy
    Appointments reform ruled out

    The Civil Service Commission won’t reform the appointment process for permanent secretaries without the backing of the Public Administration Select Committee (PASC), first civil service commissioner Sir David Normington has told CSW.


    Ashdown: ideas vacuum in politics
    23 Jan 2014 Policy
    Ashdown: ideas vacuum in politics

    Managerial politics only works in an era of economic growth, Liberal Democrat peer Lord Ashdown has warned, and the current political “vacuum where those great principles and debates should lie” leaves space for some “ugly ideas” to enter the mainstream.


    UK digital champion steps down
    29 Nov 2013 Policy
    UK digital champion steps down

    Baroness Martha Lane Fox is stepping down from her role as the government’s digital champion, after more than three years in the job.


    Select Committee criticises Home Office for failing to consult on khat ban
    29 Nov 2013 Policy
    Select Committee criticises Home Office for failing to consult on khat ban

    The Home Affairs select committee is today calling on the home secretary to rethink her decision to ban khat – a plant which has a stimulant effect when chewed – and warns that the decision has “not been taken on the basis of evidence or consultation”.


    Open book clauses not used
    27 Nov 2013 Policy
    Open book clauses not used

    The civil service must “significantly” improve its ability to understand company accounts if it is to make effective use of open-book contracts, according to government chief operating officer Stephen Kelly and chief procurement officer Bill Crothers.


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