Sentences with phrase «centralised government»

UK Government reforms Internal Communication Alex Aiken, Executive Director of Government Communications at the UK's Cabinet Office has launched a centralised Government Communication Service.
Alex Aiken, Executive Director of Government Communications at the UK's Cabinet Office has launched a centralised Government Communication Service.
Writing for The Telegraph Mr Page said: «The party created to fight centralised government, sleaze and corruption has become a parody of itself, a mirror image of the body it professes to loathe.»
The Conservatives voted against the bill after shadow home secretary David Davis criticised it as a step towards more centralised government control.
Our misguided and ill - intentioned centralised government has led to high levels of poverty, unemployment and inequality, the absence of basic healthcare and dysfunctional politics characterised by cut - throat, destructive, expensive and self - serving contests for the almighty federal power every four years!
The Conservatives, confused by the «false choice» presented by Tony Blair to defy public opinion or betray their own principles, have floundered and failed to provide an alternative to this centralised government.
Cryptocurrencies are digital means of exchange which are created by the solution of complex Mathematical problems, and which are used to effect peer - to - peer transactions without the control of a centralised government agency.

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The State Government's strategy of centralising «back office» activities into shared service centres is creating unprecedented opportunities for the information technology sector.
AusTender, the Australian Government tender system, centralises the publication of business opportunities and mandatory reporting of Contract Notices and Standing Offer Notices with a value of $ 10 000 or more.
Commenting on the centralised structure of the program and the government's imposition of it, Mr O'Brien stated: «It is a disgrace that ministerial incompetence is leading, once more, to hospitals losing money.
He said the country needed a «big change» in its style of government, scrapping the «big, cumbersome, centralised bureaucracies trying to control a world that has moved on.»
Like many developing countries, Pakistan government is highly centralised, and there was a widespread recognition that the issue of power devolution is crucial to the survival of the Federation.
The Government Property Unit is being introduced to «centralise ownership» of the government estate and will charge departments market - level rents for freehold assets they currGovernment Property Unit is being introduced to «centralise ownership» of the government estate and will charge departments market - level rents for freehold assets they currgovernment estate and will charge departments market - level rents for freehold assets they currently own.
Rather confusingly, Hannan seems to want a centralised Big Government edict to enforce the social responsibility he wants to see, writing «if everyone were responsible for his own patch of pavement, the disruption caused by snow would be much diminished.
Matthew Elliott Chairman, TaxPayers» Alliance Centralising education Neil O'Brien's uninformed dismissal of critics of government education policy, like myself, suggests that the Tory part of the coalition has no awareness of how divisive and unpopular its reforms have become (TP, February).
This system of centralising the process of government debt collection would help fix the existing mess of limited information about debtors.
When in power from 2010 to 2015, the coalition proffered a rejection of big government, a reduction in centralised bureaucracy and a significant shift of power from the centre, to councils, communities and people.
As the Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill makes clear, it only really sees power as something that can be centralised in large city regions outside of the capital, not spread around all our city centres.
The building blocks of the GDS» promised «government as a platform» approach have appeared: Verify, a federated identity system that doesn't rely on ID cards or centralised identity databases, Govpay, which makes it easier to make payments to the government, and Notify, which allows government agencies to keep citizens informed of progress on services.
Writing in the Guardian, he delivered a scathing attack on Labour, assailing the nanny state and listing Labour's perceived failures: the government's treatment of the sick and disabled, its tremulous retreat on freedom of information, its centralising instincts and the cosy corruption of old Labour rotten boroughs.
And Liberals argued for local government to have a role in the NHS right from its founding, for fear that a fully centralised system would put too much power in the hands of central government instead of the professionals and the patients.
Nigeria's post-independence competitive communalism has since been replaced by a «prebendal» system as we adopted a neo-unitary government, centralising resources at the centre and removing incentives for the federating units to be productive or self - sustaining.
But having national governments impose referendums on local communities is about centralised control not engagement.»
Centralised box - ticking management will not survive government funding cuts.
Unlock Government: The combination of the inherited powers of feudal monarchs, modern media's concentration on the Prime Minster and overuse of the party whip has turned Britain in to one of the most centralised countries in Europe.
Governments have become locked in a vicious circle of centralising power in an effort to improve public services, only to find this leads to increased dissatisfaction.
These were created by the Local Government Act 2000 at a time when Tony Blair and those around him hoped to centralise local government decision - making in elected mayors, strong leaders and cabinets, and powerful chief officers who they could deal with from Government Act 2000 at a time when Tony Blair and those around him hoped to centralise local government decision - making in elected mayors, strong leaders and cabinets, and powerful chief officers who they could deal with from government decision - making in elected mayors, strong leaders and cabinets, and powerful chief officers who they could deal with from Whitehall.
The saying that «if voting changed anything they would abolish it» rings all too true today in Britain's highly centralised system of government, where so many decisions are made by those who were not elected and can not be removed.
The last government gave itself ever greater powers to interfere in local forces; introducing reams of new paperwork and imposing centralised monthly targets for arrests.
Liberal Democrat transport spokesperson Norman Baker suggested the government's «centralised and prescriptive approach» was what had been rejected in the vote.
A centralised, top - down approach to government imposes uniformity over diversity.
Welsh Conservatives would reverse the current centralised education policies of the Welsh Assembly Government.
It improves supplier and contract management across government and increases savings for the taxpayer by centralising buying requirements for common goods and services.
Genesys Enterprise resolves issues associated with the increasing geographical scope of clients, corporations, governments and institutions, while adhering to a multi-tiered hierarchy (or «federated» system), where total control is centralised but allows individual sites to maintain local control.
Its seven recommendations include increased domestic funding for textbooks, better reporting by governments and donors, a centralised purchasing system and matched private - donor funding similar to the approach being used by the GAVI Alliance to fighting disease.
Nick Forbes of the Local Government Association said: «Extra money to repair crumbling school buildings is welcome news, but this is a highly centralised programme which could be more efficient if money was paid into a single pot in each area and councils were able to work with local schools and academies to decide priorities.»
The government are using school improvement as a weapon and hiding behind a «school - led» system to centralise everything.
However, there are concerns the move ends the «school - led improvement» system favoured by government since 2010 in favour of a more centralised approach.
Which inevitably invokes a much deeper fear, of the same intangibility inherent in our fiat currencies, our fiscal obeisance to governments who seem dead - set on printing & spending their way into oblivion, the fragility of our financial assets & markets (which now exist only as electronic blips on hackable centralised repositories), and our economic future & security itself.
They dream of a centralised unelected global government, financed by taxes on developed nations and controlled by all the tentacles of the UN.
The news comes as it emerges the UK Government has delayed the launch date of the new line - up for its centralised super-panel «L - Cat» by three months after being swamped with more than 100 formal responses.
The Government of Northern Ireland has invited law firms to pitch for a new # 23m centralised legal services panel.
Firms are vying to secure Government panel appointments as news emerges that the Scottish Executive is reviewing its advisers, while the UK Government's centralised legal review has been delayed due to unprecedented demand.
Also, the centralised health savings scheme should be managed by a government nominated body or privately managed by insurers with centralised fund management, the report added.
Hence, governments don't have to lament the lack of centralised control that comes with cryptocurrencies and the blockchain.
We know for example that for people living on the homelands or outstations, their health is better — yet the federal government, in tow with the NT government, continues its policy of seeking to centralise services.
A flaw in the Australian Government's current approach to Indigenous affairs is its centralised, «top down» approach to developing and implementing policies.
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