A mass cull of senior mandarins will see redundancies across Whitehall as part of plans to reduce staffing costs by £100 million a year.
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Telegraph on 7th Dec 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
The independence of the civil service has "become an excuse for zero accountability", according to a hard-hitting report on Whitehall's performance.
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ePolitix on 5th Mar 2009 (via rss.feedsportal.com)
David Cameron could inherit a dysfunctional Whitehall machine unable to deliver his programme if he wins the general election, a damning report into the state of the civil service under Gordon Brown concludes
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FT on 17th Jan 2010 (via traxfer.ft.com)
"This year has seen a significant increase in the number of women appointed to jobs at the very top of the Civil Service, but overall there was a further decline in the percentage of all senior appointments that went to women." Janet Paraskeva, the First Civil Service Commissioner said yesterday.
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PublicTechnology on 16th Jul 2008 (via publictechnology.net)
SENIOR Scottish mandarins are said to be "livid" at the decision by Whitehall to appoint a new head of the Scottish civil service from London without an open competiti
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Scotsman on 10th Jul 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
OPPOSITION parties yesterday demanded the reform of Whitehall's bonus culture, after research revealed civil servants had shared payouts worth almost £130 million last y
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Scotsman on 24th Dec 2009 (via news.scotsman.com)
Budget cuts in Whitehall to restore the Government's finances could hamper Britain's plans to help fragile nations emerging from war and conflict, a report warned today.
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Telegraph on 11th Mar 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Sir Bob Kerslake is to be the new head of the Civil Service in a shake-up of senior mandarins in Whitehall.
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BBCPolitics on 15th Nov 2011 (via bbc.co.uk)
THE £160,000-a-year head of Scotland's civil service has been urged to resign after a highly critical parliamentary report accused him of misleading a Holyrood inquiry.
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Scotsman on 11th Jun 2009 (via news.scotsman.com)
Whitehall mandarins face an unprecedented threat of sacking under Tory plans to end the "job for life" culture of the civil service.
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Telegraph on 27th Oct 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Further to my earlier report on George Osborne's plans to introduce financial incentives for civil servants to save money, the shadow Treasury team and Francis Maude have just launched plans to "stop the Whitehall spending supertanker". David Cameron was present...
