Sentences with phrase «make civil servants»

The biggest contributor to the coalition's efficiency savings drive was a cut in consultancy costs typically used to make civil servants more efficient, it has emerged.

A case for the defence, but former ministers and policy making civil servants, let alone senior RN and RAF officers might have a different perspective.

They have a government appointment as a marraige commissioner, to be sure, but that doesn't make them a civil servant or government employee, any more than my appointment as a notary public makes me a civil servant.

Not exact matches

Earlier this month, BI reported that the Home Office was lacking experienced civil servants who are able of making complex decisions about post-Brexit immigration.

He is proud that his system «deliberately exposes civil servants to decision making based on corporate rewards and profitability.»

Even if we made high level bilingualism a requirement for all civil servant jobs it still would not increase the return to learning French in Canada.

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.

Civil servants should be made accountable for their decisions under a radical programme of reform, a left - leaning think tank argues today.

Not according to civil servants, who have made up their own boardgame based on the law - making process: Legislate?!

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.

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.

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.

He has now ensured there are enough special advisers and wise civil servants to guide him and to make sure the levers of office make things happen when he pulls them.

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.

«It should have been clear to senior civil servants that growing demand for school places, combined with a drive for schools to make efficiency savings, would only build pressure in the system.

Responding to her Ministry's decision not to reinstate special bonus and overtime payments paid to civil servants in 2013/2014, the Minister said it is part of the same clear goal in ensuring fiscal discipline, adding that the Ministry recognises the value of its staff and have made sure salaries are paid and have worked hard to avoid redundancies.

In subsequent written correspondence with civil servants, the BHA stated that «Our concern is for the government to make absolutely clear that there is no chance it will ever accept [creationist Free School] bids, or allow any state - funded school to teach creationism as science, anywhere in the curriculum, and this is only possible through a change in the law... we would support any adjustment to the model funding agreement to add a statement [to this effect]... Could we request that the next time the [Free School] model funding agreement is reviewed, our desire for this point's inclusion is considered?»

Criticism is made of civil servants who acquiesced in the union vested interests but equally he praises those who helped him — no blanket condemnation of experts — please note Michael Gove.

Lord Butler: I think one of the difficulties is that where there are big projects we move our civil servants and ministers around too often which makes it difficult to hold our ministers and civil servants to account.

The ippr report, due to be published in July, recommends civil servants be made accountable for their performance, and ministers made accountable for policy and resources - a clarification of roles it says is badly needed.

The real decisions can often be made by civil servants.

Up until six years ago, governors routinely signed legislation shielding NYPD, FDNY, Department of Corrections and Department of Sanitation workers from cuts made to disability payouts for civil servant in less hazardous fields — allowing them to receive 75 percent of their former salary.

He said it was a «great disappointment» for him as «for six years I have had the incredible privilege of working inside the Whitehall machine with civil servants helping ministers to make decisions».

The government insists the appointments are made by independent committees mostly composed of civil servants and independent members, but No 10 representatives are allowed to attend and the final lists are approved by the prime minister and the Queen.

Writing in a Guardian article, Bob Kerslake made one of the strongest attacks on a government by a retired senior civil servant, saying the bill marked a «partisan and disproportionate» attempt to improve the position of the Conservatives at the expense of Labour.

O'Donnell made the announcement to the Commons justice select committee as he published special guidelines for senior civil servants in the event of a hung parliament.

Civil servants said it was «taking longer than expected» to make the change because of delays in assessing people's eligibility for the benefit.

If they're not seen to defend their department, their civil servants could spend the next two years making their life difficult.

The Laidlaw review, ordered by new transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin into the west coast fiasco, blamed civil servants for the failures in the original decision - making process that awarded the franchise to First Group.

If you happen across a helpful civil servant, stay close to them and make them your friend.

According to Melaye, the donations were made in response to his clarion call on his colleagues to assist in cushioning the effect of hardship the civil servants who were yet - to - be paid their salaries for over 22 months

It later emerged that the Royal Visits Committee is chaired by Foreign Office mandarin Sir Simon McDonald, and is made up civil servants representing the Queen, Prince Charles, Prince William and the prime minister.

Jo Johnson has been chosen to fill a role usually reserved for a civil servant, in a move which is intended to make Downing Street more political in its day - to - day operation.

There are real fears amongst senior civil servants that the cuts in the operational budget of the Borders Agency will make enforcement of immigration policy extremely difficult.

Likewise, the redoubtable Margaret Hodge's Public Accounts Committee has made senior civil servants and outsourcing company chief executives squirm with her aggressive questioning and well - targeted inquiries.

Despite the best efforts of some senior civil servants in the Home Office - who believe appeasement is an adequate solution - this Coalition government has made real concrete moves to try and get people off the conveyer belt.

O'Donnell said honesty and objectivity ran through the core of civil servants «like a stick of rock», and the forecasts which came from Whitehall would have been made in good faith.

The Scottish National party issued its own ultimatum to other parties by publishing in full the recommendations made by former civil servant Sir Thomas.

Recently, the Institute for Government, from its headquarter in Carlton Gardens, brought together serving and retired ministers and civil servants, academics, journalists and experts from the private sector to conduct studies and hold seminars under the broad headline Making Coalition Government Work.

Hundreds of thousands of public sector jobs are threatened, pay is being frozen or set below inflation and the government has made it clear it will implement Lord Hutton's proposals on public sector pensions, meaning civil and public servants will pay more and work longer for a lower pension.

The Minister who made the disclosure at an interactive session with newsmen on Tuesday shortly after he met with the Association of Civil Servants of Nigeria in Abuja said the programme would enlighten Nigerians on the need to positively change their attitude and ensure they do the right things.

Talk of coordinated union action over pensions may be unachievable therefore, if the government makes concessions to the unions in the local authority scheme, but not to teachers, civil servants or the NHS.

The Federal Civil Service Commission of Nigeria (FCSC) is an executive body in Nigeria that has the authority to make appointments and transfers and to exercise disciplinary control over all Federal Civil Servants.

As with this week's other row, over Michael Gove's political advisers using private email channels to circumvent FoI inquiries about their free schools policy, we can see that civil servants have difficult jobs which both politicians and the media can make much harder.

The Oyo State Executive Council on Monday said it has made the enrolment for its health insurance compulsory for all civil and public servants in the...

Will you make it clear that any Member who takes part in that debate will be free to question the conduct in this deplorable affair of Ministers, of civil servants and of the House authorities?

The governor said his administration had made tremendous progress in resolving all issues relating to adequacy and frequency of remuneration for all categories of Civil Servants in the State.

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.

Research careers in Spain are also made less attractive to non-EU researchers in particular due to the additional restrictions that apply to their eligibility for permanent contracts, which are traditionally seen as civil servants positions.

Ms. Levine made a brief analysis of the current state of research in Spain, and among other things, she said that, «The [Spanish] universities are saturated with civil servants whose focus is on teaching rather than original research.»