Sentences with phrase «civil servants at»

Border patrol agents without law enforcement experience may start as GL - 5 civil servants at a salary of $ 40,511 to $ 50,639.

We received visits from civil servants at ministries and leading judges.

It is unfortunate that false charges of favoritism have gained currency, because they are an insult to the civil servants at the city Education Department who are committed to protecting all children.

But day - to - day - management is in the hands of civil servants at the Executive Agency in Brussels, which is controlled by the European Commission.

This would appear to explain why an internal and confidential projection drawn up by civil servants at the Department for Education suggested 40,000 teachers could lose their jobs over the course of this spending review.

Civil servants at BIS who are working to re-industrialise the UK can take the short walk to Pimlico to see these portrayals of the North's industrial heyday.

He observed that there was poor attendance of civil servants at the event and directed that they would have to queue behind their commissioners in subsequent presentations.

Lord Butler says that select committees can and do see civil servants at all levels.

Two Cabinet ministers and civil servants at the Department for Transport are fighting an increasingly bitter blame game behind closed doors over the collapse of the government's system for awarding rail franchises.

Chris Huhne, the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, expresses his astonishment after comedian Ruby Wax provided senior civil servants at the Home Office with lessons in leadership and communication.

On the BoG Board, Keli Gadzekpo, a co-founder of Databank with Mr. Ofori Atta, is a Board Member, even as eight Senior Civil Servants at the Ministry of Finance have been replaced with people from Databank by Ofori - Atta.

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LONDON — A former senior civil servant at the Treasury has attacked the government's decision to backstop a $ 2 billion (# 1.5 billion) loan to Saudi Arabia's state oil company in an apparent bid to woo the company to list in London.

Hayden Phillips, the senior civil servant at the time, has also received an invitation and Baroness Dean and Lord Hurd, who were on the scrutiny committee at the time of his appointment, are also understood to be on the list.

On Wednesday, George Osborne released a report by the most senior civil servant at the Treasury, Sir Nicholas Macpherson which «strongly» advised against the union as «currently proposed».

Having gained a first class degree from Oxford and begun his career working as a civil servant at 10 Downing Street under Baroness Thatcher, the former MP was nicknamed «Two Brains» by his colleagues due to his background and his serious approach to policy formulation.

Blackmail, on the other hand, is the standard accusation of the weaker partner, as Nick Macpherson, former head of the civil servant at the Treasury, pointed out.

Jonathan Stephens, the senior civil servant at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, warned there would be no «automatic gongs» for Team GB and Paralympic GB members.

Born 21 September 1950 in London, son of Lady Brenda and Sir Richard Clarke, a senior civil servant at Tony Benn's Ministry of Technology.

Earlier in the same hearing, the top civil servant at the Home Office announced an inquiry into the advice given to Amber Rudd by members of the civil service «before, during and after» the select committee hearing that ultimately led to her resignation as home secretary last month.

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.

John Kingman, a former senior civil servant at the treasury department who is experienced in research and innovation policy, is UKRI board chair.

● LSB chief exec: Chris Kenny — civil servant at Dept of Health and Treasury, director of Oftel, director of Life & Pensions for the ABI;

When the helpline was closed down in May, I wrote to justice minister Simon Hughes and the relevant civil servant at the MoJ asking why it had been axed.

Not exact matches

That period would prove important for another reason: the government posted Kuroda for a year as special adviser to the cabinet of Junichiro Koizumi, giving the civil servant sustained exposure to politicians at the highest levels.

With new programs and initiatives being unveiled at the provincial and federal level all the time, there will always be a need for talented civil servants to keep Canada's political institutions running.

«I'm skeptical the projected cuts can be obtained through attrition and cutting back on paper clips,» said Kevin Milligan, economist at the University of British Columbia, who projects cutbacks to civil servant wages, benefits or pensions along possible layoffs.

We look at Heather Savory's impressive career as engineer, graphics chips pioneer, businesswoman, civil servant and open data guru

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.

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

«Pupils and students of public schools have been at home for over four weeks due to the strike embarked upon by civil servants and teachers.»

He details his long hours ploughing through his red boxes and at times his frustrations with civil servants and their ability to procrastinate.

But what comes through the pages of Hearts and Minds is Oliver's ability to carry out substantial research to get at the truth of how to implement or change policy, and impartiality to motivate able people — politicians, civil servants and business types to enthusiastically help him.

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.

At that time some civil servants (such as prison officers and immigration staff) were reclassified as «Programme» rather than «Administration».

There is a great deal of evidence from witnesses on line at the Chilcot Inquiry website from ministers, civil servants, the military and intelligence agencies.

This article is based on conversations with Catherine Barnard, professor of EU Law at the University of Cambridge, Anand Menon, professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King's College London and director of UK in a Changing Europe, Steve Peers, professor of EU, Human Rights and World Trade Law at the University of Essex, Amy Porges, adviser and government representative on WTO negotiations and litigation and free trade agreements, John Springford, director of Research at the Centre for European Reform and other politicians, trade negotiators, civil servants and officials in London, Washington and Brussels who asked not to be named.

In the early 1970s he joined Rothschild's Central Policy Review Staff at No 10 in the Heath government where he learnt to admire Heath and make contacts and friends with a generation of the ablest young civil servants who would rise to power and influence from which he benefitted.

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.

Ekiti State government is hereby out on notice to pay all the arrears of civil servants within seven days otherwise I will not hesitate to mobilize the people for a mass action and protest and at the same time drag the government to court.»

Buhari spoke during his interactive session with civil servants working at the President Villa.

This paper was discussed, and further examples of data breaks across the public sector were explored, at a seminar at LSE in April, attended by senior civil servants and academics.

Over the period from 1980 to 2010 numbers of civil servants were cut by over a third — ostensibly to cut costs — but the costs of hiring civil servants did not fall at all in constant - price terms, and overall running costs continued to rise.

• Policymakers at all levels, from local to national • Civil servants, public affairs professionals, campaigners and senior journalists from all of Britain's newspapers and broadcasters • Politically interested members of the public (ABC1 adults and millennials)- think regular watchers of Newsnight and Question Time • Academics and students.

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.

Suffolk County Employees, other than sworn police or correction officers, are categorized as either management employees, meaning that they serve at the pleasure of their designated supervisor, or are civil servants protected by collective bargaining agreements and are members of the Association of Municipal Employees (herein after A.M.E.).

When we look at the pattern more closely, that increase in administration costs turns out to have come from non-payroll items such as consultancy and IT, while paybill — what it cost to hire civil servants — stayed roughly the same in constant - price terms over the period as a whole.

«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.

Addressing an audience of more than 80 Parliamentarians and 150 construction industry leaders, civil servants and journalists at the House of Commons, Bill Bolsover, the Chairman of the Construction Products Association, identified the construction industry as a key driver of economic growth and suggested ways in which government should kick start the recovery.

The announcement came as McLoughlin attempted to lay the blame for the Department for Transport's (DfT) fiasco at the door of civil servants - and not his predecessor in the job Justine Greening, now the international development secretary.