Sentences with phrase «done by civil servants»

Government could use parliamentary committees to look at proposals and identify problems in advance — pre-legislative scrutiny in practice doesn't match its current remit, and there is a need to bring back «in - house» a lot of work that was traditionally done by civil servants but has been outsourced, with an unhealthy relationship between the private sector and consultants.

Not exact matches

Those secure in their beliefs do not, as Mr Mnuchin did, seek to de-publish studies by apolitical civil servants.

For peoples subject to, or allied with, the Roman state, this change in the form of government did not make a great deal of difference, except that in the early years of the empire the power struggles which accompanied the decline of the republic seemed to have come to an end, and tax - collection by private companies, often accompanied by extortion, was replaced by tax - collection by civil servants.

«The procurement of contracts are often done centrally, by civil servants in Whitehall who don't know what's best for a particular prison.

He won't do emails — insisting, instead, on working with a fountain pen as he goes through his red box each morning issuing marching orders to civil servants by writing on their papers.

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.

The government has to recognise that this erosion of confidence can only be halted by having enough civil and public servants with the right resources to do the job.

But adds that if civil servants are to be held accountable you need to find out what specific task was delegated to them by the relevant minister «that is not an easy task to do».

No one would dispute the idea that civil servants do need to be accountable for their actions, but equally the last thing we want to see is government ministers evading their responsibilities by blaming others.

This is a very apposite book and should be read by ministers, shadow ministers, parliamentarians and civil servants, but I doubt whether more than a few will have the inclination or time to do so.

Any minister is reliant on their private office to point out what they need to read and what they don't, and on the face of it she was let down by her civil servants and her special advisers.

The opportunity to innovate, to do things differently, to experiment with the ideas you've had instead of being told by civil servants in Whitehall that it isn't the way things are done.

Let it be known at this juncture that we also condemned the destructive act of the students, therefore, we are not against the fact that the management want to sanction them through payment of damages, all we are saying is that N25, 000 [TwentyFive Thousand Naira] is too much for our parents to bear considering the fact that the school is dominated by ward (s) of Ondo State Civil Servants who have not received salary since November 2015, and most of these parents have 2 to 4 children in this same university, therefore, where do we expect them to get such a huge amount of money?

This report will show clearly the dangers being courted by Buhari's attitude, as well as the need to quickly fill the remaining six slots that would empower INEC with the full complement of its Board as stipulated by the Constitution — over 20 states of the federation do not have RECs as at today, thereby opening the Commission to the mercy of malleable civil servants.

He said, «Some months back when regular payment of workers salary by the state government became difficult due to the obnoxious economic policies of the Buhari administration and plundering of the state by the immediate past APC — led government, this particular civil servant did not hang himself then.

«If this act by the Senators was done in good fate, the donation should have been done for civil servants nationwide.

Those of us who undertake school - led teacher training, or represent providers which do, are being increasingly consulted by politicians, policy - makers and civil servants on solutions to issues around teacher recruitment and retention.

Can the people of Illinois elect and direct their civil servants to do what is reasonable within taxation levels agreed to by the majority?

Research done by the Fraser Institute finds civil servants are paid 12 per cent more than Joe and Jane Lunchpail.

«Civil servants» are not kept blind by the monopoly, they are overwhelmingly progressive and do not read beyond the NYTimesWashPostCNNABCCBSNBC.

The politicians, university administrators, civil servants, journalists etc. who conspired in the different cover ups were by and large just doing what they always do: protecting the status quo, and, indirectly their own jobs and status.

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.

There you are, just trying to supplement your meager civil servant's salary by doing a little moonlighting, and you have to go and choose a «business partner» who isn't who he says he is, ruining your whole plan.

PLF's central objection is that the regulation was issued by a career FDA civil servant without proper legal authority to do so.

What the spokesperson didn't say is that there was a feeling among some participants that the project was ambushed by civil servants fearful of losing their jobs.

Mr. Justice Denny Thomas of the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench did not merely accept the arguments of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees when he slapped an injunction on the Government of Alberta yesterday, indefinitely suspending a law that could have forced 22,000 civil servants to live with a contract imposed on them by legislative fiat.

She is employed by the Department of Transport and as a civil servant is bound not to «call into doubt the impartiality of the civil service,» which, the Daily Mail felt, some of her tweets did.

Assuming that civil servants don't want to be pilloried in the Daily Mail or roasted by the Public Accounts Committee, why these endless failures?

These «wannabe successful but don't wannawork» Realtors are matched in the bureaucracy of government by civil servants who are convinced there are folks out in the real world who are having fun and they are going to do something about it.