Sentences with phrase «more civil servants»

Presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Clinton all cut more civil servants during their their first year in office than Trump did.

This further brave new world of child support — the fourth in 15 years — will require yet more civil servants to run it; and, I fear, they will get it even more wrong.

The mounting workload on regional commissioners may be one reason why more civil servants are being appointed to work alongside them.

Cost - cutting efforts may force more civil servants» jobs outside central London, a minster has warned.

Haruna Iddrisu said this is part of a grand scheme by the Nana Addo - led government to dismiss more civil servants.

Back in November, an unsolicited memo from Deloitte suggested that Britain needed anywhere from 10,000 to 30,000 more civil servants to handle the workload of exiting the EU.

Not exact matches

And wouldn't having more career civil servants — in other words, conscientious bureaucrats with no particular axes to grind — be better for everyone?

Starting in the mid-1980s, researchers from University College London spent twenty years examining the relationship between sleep patterns and life expectancy in more than 10,000 British civil servants.

Other studies found the same pattern in groups ranging from San Francisco dock workers to British civil servants to Harvard graduates: sit more, die younger.

As the vision for the connecting tunnel between Folkestone and Calais became more concrete, Ministry of Defence (MoD) civil servants and senior military officers drew up the nuclear plan in order to thwart a possible invasion by the Soviet army from Calais, The Independent has discovered.

Business owners» views on tax fairness is also demonstrated in their reactions to certain statements: More than three - quarters (77 %) agree with the statement «Government civil servants get the biggest breaks by far because of their tax - supported pensions.»

The main man in this regard was Mr. Paul Boothe, an unassuming, consummate federal civil servant who proved in the heat of battle that he could negotiate with the best of them. If only all our public officials were as determined and skilful in their efforts to pro-actively win real investment and real opportunities for our industries. The St. Catharines announcement is in large part the fruition of the efforts by Boothe (and all the other stakeholders in last year's rescue, including the provincial government and the CAW) to negotiate a package that was much more than a bailout. Rather, it was a recipe for a reaffirmed Canadian presence by these two lynchpin manufacturers (GM and Chrysler).

A senior Northern Ireland politician has asked civil servants to draft a bill introducing same - sex marriage... More

However, they were allowed to function as servants, maids, and nannies (thus you will hear Mormons insist they were «allowed» in) In 1978 — more than 10 years after the civil rights act, the IRS finally threatened to take away their tax - free status.Man!

Christian groups catering for politicians and civil servants at Parliament «have never been stronger»,... More

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 Akufo Addo government's inexplicable belief in the «job for the boys» philosophy also threatens to render valuable human resources in the various MDA's redundant following the engagement of a legion of special assistants and advisors who wield more influence and power than very senior public and civil servants in many MDAs despite possessing limited qualifications.

[5] Indeed, in his most recent piece, Roberts claims that «UK civil servants are now said to be presenting ministers with a more binary choice: accept political compromises similar to aspects of the European Economic Area (EEA), or settle for a much more limited trade deal such as the recent EU - Canada free trade agreement (CETA).»

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.

«The trend is internal to the Jewish community... which is to say older, middle - aged and more secular Jewish voters like my parents — two retired teachers and civil servants in Brooklyn — just don't have the numbers anymore.

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.

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.

One thing is that it takes more to cut running costs in government than cutting numbers of civil servants — something that seems to have escaped the Thatcher government in the 1980s but has been clearly recognized in the current government's much more determined attempts to rein in consultancy and IT contract costs.

He notes that civil servants are now appearing before committees and before the press more often than before.

Today's report found civil servants were hopelessly outclassed by much larger and more experienced negotiating teams from the private sector.

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.

Fat civil - servant pensions are costing taxpayers more than ever before and have led to a clarion call for re form nationwide.

We lost more people on 9/11, in part because we are such a civil - servant - oriented borough.

Its demands for Nick Clegg to receive more support were swiftly followed by the appointment of a senior civil servant, at permanent secretary rank, to oversee his work.

Formal backing for more than a quarter of a million civil and public servants to join a public sector - wide strike on 30 November puts the Public and Commercial Services union on a «war footing».

It is even more worrisome that the person is a civil servant on level 9.

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.

The Conservatives yesterday promised # 1m to fund a four year programme that would help more disabled people become MPs, councillors and civil servants.

«So there was need to do an audit to find out how we got to the situation where there were more senior than junior level civil servants; it was lopsided, the issues necessitated the civil service reform which is part of the five cardinal programmes of the government,» He said.

Liberal Democrat rebels are more likely to have cast dissenting votes on social issues, such as the increase in VAT from 15 % to 17.5 %, the introduction of free schools and the expansion of academies, and curbs to superannuation for civil servants.

Prior to 1997, civil servants in major government departments were forced to consult Will Hutton's The State We're In to discover more about New Labour's plans for government.

In little more than a decade, the majority of civil servants, for example, will be on the new retirement age.»

Since Maurice Hankey's time as cabinet secretary in the First World War, the role of policymaking civil servant has been crucial to the smooth running of coalitions and, more signifi cantly, their conception.

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.

More than a quarter of a million civil and public servants in the Public and Commercial Services union will start voting this week in a national strike ballot over cuts to pensions, jobs and pay.

But perhaps more important in a race that will depend heavily on turnout, Mr. McGrath has won the endorsements of many local unions, including some representing law enforcement, civil servants, health care workers and firefighters.

We need to hold civil servants, government officials, contractors etc and more accountable.

«Sir Andrew himself now appears to know more about the workings (and failings) of the immigration system than most civil servants in the Home Office.

In his latest campaign leaflet, launched today, amongst other declarations of people saying «why we're backing Ed ``, Ken says: «I was impressed that, more than any other Minister, Ed was in command of his civil servants and was able to drive -LSB-...]

The state money deficit was not caused by the employees, but by the politicians that spend much more money than what is collected (by the state employees civil servants).

A Cabinet Office press release states that Mr Maude will unveil a package of measures that will include online publication of # 50bn of potential business oppotunities; a 40 % increase in the speed of the procurement process; and, retraining of civil servants so that become more open to awarding contracts to smaller and medium - sized firms.

On the one hand Francis Maude is saying civil servants need to take more risks.

Much of the budget formulation process is in the hands of career civil servants, who represent a collective reservoir of knowledge about the agencies they oversee, and handle many of the more granular decisions on their own.

But if we look further, the latest analyses show that between 2000 and 2008 more than 60 percent of scientific production in Spain was carried out in universities (2), despite the fact that their professors are ``... civil servants whose focus is on teaching rather than original research».

Over the past year, at least 70,000 Venezuelans have lost their jobs — as civil servants, teachers, taxi drivers, and more — and gone to work in swampy gold mines to make enough money to survive.