Sentences with phrase «about civil servants»

And those who complain about civil servants are, arguably, setting back reform rather than furthering it.

Many ministers and MPs complain about civil servants obstructing or slowing down policy agendas.

It won't be the side still complaining about civil servants and the referendum date.

In that regard, here's an interesting story about a civil servant in Connellsville, Penn., who successfully appealed her dismissal, on the grounds that the right process hadn't been followed.

Set in Stalin's Russia, the book is a nail - biting, gasp inducing thriller of the first order about a civil servant, Leo Demidov, who is investigating a serial killer.

Not exact matches

The second is I've found a handful of senior civil servants in Ottawa and Queen's Park who are very open - minded about updating policies.

Management by mandarin To run his fiefdom and its business holdings, Lee relies heavily on an elite cadre of about fifty senior civil servants.

Earlier this month, BI reported that the Home Office was lacking experienced civil servants who are able of making complex decisions about post-Brexit immigration.

Unfortunately, this knowledge is often denigrated by «blood - and - guts» exporters who wrongly claim that civil servants know little about the day - to - day realities of exporting.

The beefed - up mandate gives the Conservatives leeway to slash programs and civil servants, should they choose to do so, without having to worry about justifying the cuts in an election campaign months later.

Totally have to agree with this comment about military spending especially on federal retirements for military and civil servants.

The purges only intensified thereafter; within a week, about 60,000 soldiers, police, judges, civil servants and teachers found themselves detained, suspended or under investigation.

The senior civil servant added: «Please urge posts not to be bashful about this.

There is half a chance Ed Miliband will want to mention the latter, but the appalling breakdown of trust between senior civil servants and the coalition's head honchos isn't entirely about politics.

Ed Balls provides a Brownite version of recent Labour history and some fascinating observations about the role of civil servants.

There is some fascinating observations about the role of civil servants and how to use them to implement policy.

But various experts — for instance former civil servant Jim Gallagher — disagree, suggesting that questions about policy can and should be treated differently from questions about funding, with only the latter voted on by MPs from across the UK.

The Public Accounts Committee has been interrogating executives and civil servants about the degradation of asylum housing in England.

«They don't understand that they are the state», say civil servants who criticise migrants for complaining about how «the state» has not created conditions for leading a good life at home.

Okupe in a sheer reference noted that Ogun State, was receiving N2 billion monthly from the federation account between 2008 and 2009, but was paying out about N1.8 billion as staff salaries, wages and overhead costs to civil servants during the period.

We recalculated the figures as far as possible to reflect a common definition, but in the 2000s about 15 - 20 % of civil servants were reclassified in one year, and further reclassifications have occurred since then.

He adds that as a civil servant your responsibility is there to help find a compromise or think about how laterally or rationally a decision can be reached

Whitehall reform isn't just about ministers versus civil servants, but also ministers versus backbenchers

Regardless of the rights and the wrongs of this particular case it does raise very important questions about the relationship between ministers and civil servants.

It is the deceit and secrecy about the origins of the Iraq War that have been most damaging to Blair's reputation with the connivance of those civil servants, intelligence officials and senior military who were drawn into his magic circle or remained silent rather than challenge his policy.

Briefings produced in 2010 by civil servants in the Department for Education (DfE) on the principle of whether or not Steiner schools should gain state funding through the Free Schools programme express serious concern about issues such as racism, systemic bullying, academic rigour, secrecy and whether or not the schools would be able to pass Ofsted inspections, the British Humanist Association (BHA) can today reveal.

«Isn't this part of a much bigger issue which is there is growing anger in what she calls the court of public opinion not just about the pension and renumeration of what are now public sector employees but about other public sector fat cats including senior civil servants and dare I say it ministers about their very lavish and generous pension?»

But when Conservative backbencher Douglas Carswell asked about the role of civil servants in the government and suggested they were blocking ministerial action, he received a humiliating response from the prime minister.

Select committee reports are often scathing about struggling government departments or agencies, but rarely turn their fire on individual civil servants.

About 280,000 civil servants will be balloted on strike action today as the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union protests against job losses and outsourcing.

Low February 22nd: Brown's bullying row - Personality politics quickly came back to damage the PM, however, after allegations contained in Andrew Rawnsley's new book about Brown's behaviour towards civil servants rocked No 10.

Their one - year - on report on the civil service reform plan has been unusually honest about the areas where change is not taking place - in a bid to embarrass civil servants into getting on with the reforms.

But I was also a Treasury civil servant from 1980 to 1996 so I've been thinking about these issues for a very, very, very long time!»

Only about 200, out of the over 500 teachers and other civil servants in different ministries expected to participate in the examination were present in the examination hall at Imaguero College on Sapele road.

The political leaders are extolling and highlighting your examples, the urban dwellers are chanting your praises, the rural dwellers can not stop talking about your messianic interventions in their lives, the civil servants can not thank you enough, nor can mothers, children, traditional rulers and indeed every group or stratum of the state.

CCHQ staff, who went into talks with civil servants about the Thatcher funeral arrangements bright - eyed and bushy - tailed, staggered out frazzled and zonked.

Prior to 1997, civil servants in major government departments were forced to consult Will Hutton's The State We're In to discover more about New Labour's plans for government.

Drafting a law costs time and money, as does passing them through the parliament (which will probably include some bikeshedding about it), training civil servants, modifying computer systems, etc..

Former top civil servant Hayden Phillips is conducting a review into party funding at the government's request, after the cash for peerages row raised concerns about the influence wealthy businessmen were having on British political parties.

Contrary to the expectations of many Nigerians that Mrs Husseina Mohammed, a civil servant in kogi state attached to the Teaching Service Commission will be compensated for her honesty in returning the sum of N1.8 M mistakenly paid into her account amid the current hardship, the state government has issued her a query for allegedly misinforming the public about the excess salary mistakenly paid into her account.

All we have read about the 2016 budget in the last 30 days easily explains the obscene wealth into which civil servants retire into in Nigeria.

«Sir Andrew himself now appears to know more about the workings (and failings) of the immigration system than most civil servants in the Home Office.

Godric Smith, the civil servant who gave evidence to the Hutton inquiry about his limited role in the decision to «out» the late Dr David Kelly as a suspected leaker, has been trying to leave Downing Street for much of the year.

As with this week's other row, over Michael Gove's political advisers using private email channels to circumvent FoI inquiries about their free schools policy, we can see that civil servants have difficult jobs which both politicians and the media can make much harder.

His comments follow the row over alleged bullying at Number 10 after political journalist Andrew Rawnsley claimed top civil servant Sir Gus O'Donnell warned the prime minister about his treatment of staff.

Although civil servants were going about their duties normally, most political appointees, including presidential aides also stayed away from their offices for the better part of the vacation.

James Arbuthnot, now chairman of the Commons defence select committee, was «concerned about the appearance of inequity in the treatment of Mr Ashcroft in comparison with other non-domiciled working peers», the senior civil servant Sir Hayden Phillips wrote on 29 June 2000.

Last night it emerged that the top civil servant at 10 Downing Street has raised concerns with the Treasury about George Osborne's failure to kick - start growth.

Much of the budget formulation process is in the hands of career civil servants, who represent a collective reservoir of knowledge about the agencies they oversee, and handle many of the more granular decisions on their own.

Participants at the 2004 conference will include scientists of many disciplines, industrialists, politicians and civil servants, as well as anyone concerned about the role science should play in the political process.