Sentences with phrase «civil servant»

But Mr Davis demanded that this inquiry must be led by a judge, not a civil servant, to ensure it properly established the facts.

In his day he was a very able civil servant, and it seems to me that if anyone could unravel and reform the tangled bureaucracy which holds up the devoted professionals of the NHS, it ought to be someone with his experience.

Turley was formerly a civil servant, initially working on youth crime issues, and later moved to the Department for Work and Pensions specialising in child poverty issues.

Carlina is the daughter of a hardworking single mother who is a dedicated civil servant and proud union member.

The slick former minister, civil servant and investment banker pitches liberal internationalism as a rupture from the status quo.

The question of which unknown civil servant released which letter on which website at which time are of huge interest to MPs and journalists, but of almost no interest to anyone else.

Indeed, until it was reformed in 1989, Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 made it a criminal offence for any civil servant or public contractor to reveal any information he or she had learned in the course of his or her work: an offence that successive governments continued to prosecute well into the 1980s, despite recommendations published in 1972 by the Franks Committee calling for reform.

This means that while public services — such as the replacement of a lost national identity card or primary or secondary education — have official costs (in the formal economy) they often are now accompanied by supplementary costs that are pocketed by the civil servant as a means to supplement lost salary (informal economy), this is one manifestation of the barter within a cash economy.

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.

Getting a senior civil servant to have an informal chat in the right ear is usually all that's required.

Only a civil servant could think it was sound policy.

The senior civil servant in charge of the reform suffered from ill - health and was only able to work for one day a week, before leaving in the autumn - when the programme director retired, too.

Low cost interventions that make a big difference to local communities could feature strongly in Government's forthcoming thinking around infrastructure, a senior civil servant has suggested.

The Commons» leading civil servant has sent a clear signal he backs abortive plans to give more power to backbench MPs, in an unusual break from his silence on the issue.

The court ordered that one of the sureties must be a civil servant not lower than Great Level 14, and one must have easily identifiable residence in Abuja.

Gorsuch, as a conservative, is not unwilling to join the government, he has been a civil servant for his whole life.

The lawmaker explained that the late senior civil servant was being owed 11 months salary which made it difficult for him to meet his responsibilities.

Barbara Hosking's book, Exceeding My Brief, Memoirs of a Disobedient Civil Servant, tells how she came to London as a Cornish scholarship girl just after the second world war.

It came from a civil servant in the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Labour had a knack of creating government departments with ugly, stilted names and this was one of them).

Meanwhile in covering the downfall of Stephen Byers, the author doesn't neglect to mention what senior civil servant Richard Mottram was overheard shouting at a bewildered colleague in the Department for Transport: «We're all fucked.

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

With recent staff changes in the DfT, the BMF also warn that it also means that there is now no one senior from the DfT, either civil servant or minister, who was involved at the outset of the review, a review set up to address a revised testing regime that had seen new tests introduced by the DSA and hundreds of test centres close.

Humphrey the stray cat (named after the civil servant in Yes Minister) wandered into No 10 in 1989.

A successor to Simon Kirby — who was thought to be Britain's highest paid civil servant on a salary of # 750,000 — is currently being sought.

Only to arrive and find an empty room and one shell - shocked civil servant promising me we'd get on with things shortly — but first he had to get us some desks.»

Why not wait until concrete proposals have been properly formulated in the department to give it a semblance of nuetral civil servant calculation, rather than the increasingly impatient crusade of a liberal minister?

(Third interview; age 23 years, civil servant, formula feeding.)

She was a successful attorney and he a civil servant.

In addition to the new menu, Miller's Ale House will honor local civil servant All - American heroes with a special treat and recognition.

Some were students or civil servant exam takers, but no matter what their function, the Indians began to influence English food.

Having a Dream Crusher as a gatekeeper is like giving a bitter civil servant having the power of a brilliant, possibly society changing emigrant standing hopeful in front of him.

There was also a tendency to assimilate these clerical degrees to the cursus honorum of the Roman civil servant.

Samuel Pepys (pronounced Peeps) was a successful seventeenth - century British civil servant who chronicled nearly every day of his life for almost nine straight years, from 1660 to 1669, including his business interest in ships and the British navy, his run - ins with the nobility, his merry meals with friends and family, his nightly prayers, and his «towsing» (ruffling up, disheveling) of women other than his wife (the latter two activities often on the same day).

I am not a pastor or in any position of leadership within the church but as a full time civil servant I would get the sack if I did not do my job competently or I have the option to leave if I become disillusioned with the job.

When he sought reinstatement as a Parisian civil servant — a job he had despised in younger days — the authorities disqualified him for moral turpitude.

The classical introduction to Buddhism in Japan was written by Sir Charles Eliot, that fabulous British civil servant, titled simply Japanese Buddhism.

With this court judgment, we can forget whatever normalcy we had in our lives,» Ejaz Mall, a 34 - year - old Christian civil servant in Pakistan, told Religion News Service.

The former civil servant also acknowledged the frustration felt among communities following the Grenfell Tower tragedy, as well as the «deprivation and inequality» which divides the capital.

William Nye, the Church of England's most senior civil servant, told The Times bishops felt this was a «bearable anomaly» but others would be «concerned» that the proposal would break the «continuous apostolic succession» that Anglican members believe links their clergy and bishops to the original followers of Jesus Christ.

She continued her career as a civil servant, serving in the criminal department of the Home Office from 1968 to 1979, when she decided to give writing her full attention.

Thus a teacher is not and never can be a civil servant... Whatever authority he may possess to teach and control children, and to claim their respect and obedience, comes to him from God, through the parents and not through the State, except in so far as the State is acting on behalf of the parents.

As you said, once you arrive at your job as a civil servant, you should be there to do work.

This is very interesting to me because although I'm a minister, I'm employed by the government as a civil servant.

Those of whom we know anything seem rather to have been petits bourgeois: four of them were «partners» in a small family firm owning and operating fishing - boats and employing labour [Luke 5:1 - 9]; one had been a minor civil servant [Mark 2:14].

And A.M. Juster is the best senior civil servant of whom American poetry can boast.

Groomed by the American system for some job like the one he holds — high school at Roxbury Latin, undergrad at Yale (and president of Yale's prestigious Political Union in his last year there), law school at Harvard — he belongs to a type of quiet and careful civil servant that Caesar Augustus would have recognized.

«She also brings strong experience of parish and cathedral life, and sees her vocational experience as nurse, civil servant, priest and bishop as a totality.»

Pannenberg was born in 1928, in Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland), the son of a German civil servant.

It is divisive when clannishness shuts out the common citizen, and when it shuts out the nobleborn, and when it shuts out the civil servant.

Islam recognizes that the right of private discretion belongs to any individual who possesses the capacity for clear thinking and study, whether man or woman, ruler or subject, leading government civil servant or private citizen.