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Truth to Power: How Civil Service Reform Can Succeed

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In this report, House of Commons, Public Administration Select Committee focus on the relationship between ministers and officials, in which tensions have become more and more evident. This has been detailed in public—in numerous media stories—in an unprecedented way. It is said to reflect ministerial concerns about competence, culture and skills in Whitehall, and this narrative has formed the backdrop to the Government’s Civil Service Reform Plan. The PASC have considered these concerns, the changing world the Civil Service is operating within, and the future challenges which the leadership of the Civil Service and ministers must face, as part of this inquiry. This report briefly summarises three of the main Civil Service reform inquiries— Northcote-Trevelyan, Haldane and Fulton—and how the issues raised by each remain relevant to today’s debate. The committee assess the 2012 Civil Service Reform Plan, the 2013 One Year On document, and the prospects for further reform, and also look at the main concerns highlighted by current and former ministers about the state of the Civil Service and consider how these systemic issues could be addressed in the long term.

This Report, and most of the evidence PASC have received, underline main conclusion and recommendation: that, while some elements of the Government’s Civil Service Reform Plan may be implemented, as a whole, will have little if any lasting impact. It is not based on any comprehensive analysis of the fundamental problems and challenges facing the Civil Service. It does not constitute a comprehensive programme for changing or transforming the Civil Service. So as a reform programme, the Government’s civil service reforms will fail. The committee will therefore recommend the Government facilitates a comprehensive Parliamentary review of the future of the Civil Service by means of a joint committee of both Houses, along the lines of the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards.

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London : House of Commons., 2013

Deskripsi Fisik

ii, 282 pages : illustration , cm.

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780215061751

Klasifikasi

352.05

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

other (computer)

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Subjek

Civil service
Public administration
Civil service reform
Government
Civil service comission

Info Detail Spesifik

8th Report of Session 2013–14 (Volume I & II)

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