Sentences with phrase «civil servants giving»

You need to have civil servants giving candid advice and the best ministers want that.»

The rules set out detailed guidance for civil servants giving evidence before select committees.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

Largely because my predecessors in office rose through the ranks, they were civil servants and naturally, nemo dat quod non habit that is the latin phrase for saying you can not give what you don't have.

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.

While the 200 or so staff in Downing Street leapt into action to support the new prime minister, I was given just a single civil servant.

Civil servants, the PM believes, have an enormously important role and must be given the freedom to carry it out, while secretaries of state, ministers and their teams should be allowed to sink or swim, express their views and get on with their missions.

10.15 am: Former cabinet secretaries Lord Armstrong, Lord Wilson, Lord Turnbull and Lord O'Donnell give evidnce to the Lords constitutional committee on the role of civil servants.

The longstanding practice of giving some awards exclusively and routinely to senior civil servants and diplomats has also been widely criticised.

Given that most families in states depend on their civil servant relations, defying all odds to ensure a good treatment of the workforce is almost a sure guarantee for a return to office for a political leader.

«The political leaders of Kogi State and the APC stakeholders have resolved unequivocally to give 4 weeks ultimatum to Governor Yahaya Bello, to reconcile the ongoing staff audit in the state with the realities on ground, pay our civil servants, the pensioners and others,» APC said.

Civil servants in Osun State are at the moment divided over the directive given by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, directing workers in the state to...

Civil servants in Osun State are at the moment divided over the directive given by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, directing workers in the state to resume work after weeks of strike action.

Ekiti people are tired of his government, civil servants, artisans, market women, youths, students, all of them are tired and they are waiting for APC to give them better life.»

On his first day in office, Brown rescinded the Order in Council which gave his predecessor's political advisers Alastair Campbell — who left office in 2003 — and Jonathan Powell, authority to issue instructions to civil servants.

In some cases, scholarships and training programmes abroad meant for the ministries are given to the special assistants at the neglect of civil servants.

As I understand it, short money is given to opposition parties for policy work etc because they don't have the same access to Civil Servants as Government Parties.

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.

In fact, feelers reaching DAILY POST from Makurdi, the Benue State capital have it that the enraged civil servants have conclude plans to give Suswam a farewell «blow» when he will hand over to the incoming Governor, Dr Samuel Ortom on Friday.

In its report on the white paper published in March 2007, the all - party defence select committee said it had been given costings by senior MoD civil servant Tom McKane.».

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.

In a departure from recent precedent, he has also authorised - Nick Clegg's Liberal Democratsto be given full access to key civil servants.

According to him, Governor Ayodele Fayose also enjoined civil servants in the state to work half - day, so as to give a heroic welcome to the released officials.

It's especially hard to see how a Downing Street policy unit staffed partly by civil servants can give Government strategy the drive and focus it needs.

Blair responded post-1997 by crafting a Presidential Premiership, giving political appointments such as Jonathan Powell and Alistair Campbell the authority to instruct civil servants, and instituting what David Cameron in opposition called «Sofa Government» - in other words, making decisions in meetings unminuted by Whitehall.

Civil servant salaries are given to those in permanent positions, while overheads are provided for those on short - term contracts.

The rest are all career civil servants whose jobs are not tied to a given administration.

With 24 years of excellence, academy has given 3000 + Civil Servants to the nation.

«The LGA opposes both forced academisation, and giving significant powers relating to education to unelected civil servants with parents and residents unable to hold them to account at the ballot box.»

Transparency and accountability have been key areas of concern since the commissioners were first appointed in September 2014, with opponents of academies questioning why responsibility for schools is being removed from elected local authorities and given to appointed civil servants.

«The LGA opposes forced academisation and giving significant powers relating to education to unelected civil servants with parents and residents unable to hold them to account at the ballot box.»

The revelation comes as the senior civil servants prepare to take on extra work, with the government's education and adoption bill giving them responsibility for improving schools considered to be coasting (see page 5).

Civil Servant David Fitzgerald, a spy for the Resistance, is given the mission to rescue Frank and get him out of the country.

It's not the Crown civil servants whose offices are housed in the very same courthouse within a hallway or two of any given courtroom in which they might be required.

117 Except with the consent of the Board, no member of the Board, nor its registrar, nor any of its other officers, nor any of its clerks or servants shall be required to give testimony in any civil proceeding or in any proceeding before the Board or in any proceeding before any other tribunal respecting information obtained in the discharge of their duties or while acting within the scope of their employment under this Act.

Justice Lamer did so by determining that the evidence of those «present at the creation» — those involved in the drafting — should be given minimal weight, since statements by «civil servants» were not sufficiently indicative of the intentions of the legislative bodies that adopted the Charter.

It will also do so if courts blur the lines between federal and state or provincial authority, making it more difficult for citizens to know what government is responsible for what law or social programme, or give private unaccountable actors, such as civil servants» unions, power to influence public affairs.

Its aim is to provide a resource that politicians and civil servants can draw on when making policy decisions and give them more ready access to the research community.