Sentences with phrase «senior civil servants»

He was blocked by the country's most senior civil servant, partly on the basis that it was just months before a general election.

Also, people at the top of an employment hierarchy, such as senior civil servants, tend to be long - lived.

Eight senior civil servants from the education sector have already been announced to help run regional schools commissioner offices.

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.

Under the draft plans, the role of overseeing standards will fall entirely to eight appointed senior civil servants called regional schools commissioners.

The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria in Osun State has said that the union will embark on three - day warning strike if its demands are not met by Thursday.

The second is I've found a handful of senior civil servants in Ottawa and Queen's Park who are very open - minded about updating policies.

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.

Real democracy could take # 200 billion (30 %) off the cost of running the UK by replacing our unproductive politicians and senior civil servants by a few elected co-ordinators with emergency powers only.

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.

And at the other end we have the problem of civil senior civil servants who have no respect & even at times utter disgust for any civil servants who have specialist expertise and who in any sane world would be the obvious choice to work in some areas.

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

The Department for Education (DfE) is set to appoint eight new senior civil servants to head up regional schools commissioner (RSC) offices and help manage their rising workload.

As such, the message of this book is clear and simple: don't believe the messianic idea merchants who tell us that their reforms will put everything right, or that if you make senior civil servants managers and delivery boys rather than policy wonks, all will be well.

They need senior civil servants with keen radars for political risk and judgement to advise on problems.

Martin Furlong, national officer for the civil servant union, the First Division Association (FDA), said: «In the past five years the total remuneration [for senior civil servants]-- including bonuses, pensions and pay awards — has reduced in value by a quarter.

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.

There is half a chance Ed Miliband will want to mention the latter, but the appalling breakdown of trust between senior civil servants and the coalition's head honchos isn't entirely about politics.

The document was prepared by Hugh Ind, the director general of the Home Office's Immigration Enforcement agency, in June last year and copied to Rudd and Brandon Lewis, the then immigration minister, as well as several senior civil servants and special advisers.

I was told by a very senior civil servant in July 2010 that the new administration, while bent on drastic costs reform, was relaxed about referral fees.

And A.M. Juster is the best senior civil servant of whom American poetry can boast.

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.

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.

They will be meaningless as she and others have said their priority is UK trade agreements elsewhere, leaving a three course meal for the hope of a packet of crisps as one former senior civil servant put it yesterday.

Arlene Foster launches scathing attack on day that senior civil servants admit there are few plans for managing Irish border

Bob Kerslake stops short of endorsing or opposing a system whereby ministers can appoint their own senior civil servants.

Recall that the federal government last week commenced the biometric registration of senior civil servants due for retirement from year 2018.

«Isn't this part of a much bigger issue which is there is growing anger in what she calls the court of public opinion not just about the pension and renumeration of what are now public sector employees but about other public sector fat cats including senior civil servants and dare I say it ministers about their very lavish and generous pension?»

«The fact that they weren't there [in meetings with fellow senior civil servants] every Wednesday.

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.

Whitehall sources have confirmed that Heywood told senior civil servants that there would be times when they would have to bypass the six senior ministers who want to leave the EU.

Likewise, those committees which questioned particular senior civil servants and Quango chiefs may also be fishing in a «men - only» pool.

And if senior civil servants believe that they shouldn't be in the public spotlight - for example, by being grilled by Select Committees - they shouldn't write public tributes, not even to Margaret Thatcher.

So UK senior civil servants have only a weak capacity to «speak truth to power», and especially have not been able to curtail ministerial hyper - activism, pointless party political policy churn, and legislation that was little used after its passage into law.

Meanwhile, the head of the FDA senior civil servants» union has accused ministers of trying to deflect blame for the row onto his members.

Immigration minister Caroline Nokes vowed to investigate allegations that senior civil servants received the perk for hitting targets to remove foreigners with no right to be in Britain.

Stephen Twigg, the shadow education secretary who has written to Mr Gove's most senior civil servant demanding to know why the Education Secretary had ignored the panel, said: «The fact that Michael Gove has ignored the advice of independent experts and ploughed ahead with selling off school playing fields shows he is shamefully out of touch.

However, the FDA union, which represents senior civil servants, has accused the Government of «failing to equip» public servants tasked with delivering a «brighter future» for the UK outside the EU.

The vast majority of senior civil servants do not receive it.»

The education select committee has quizzed senior civil servants as part of their latest hearing into academy finances.

But it says that the «level of operational autonomy» means that RSCs should have «a more direct form of accountability than would be the case for other senior civil servants, and we recommend the Government consider further what forms that accountability might take».

The Review Body, which advises government on setting senior civil servants» pay, reports an «unprecedented number of unfilled vacancies» in the High Court this year.

Senior civil servant Shaun McNally has been appointed as chief executive of the Legal Aid Agency, and will take up his post on 1 April.

Male DJ always imagines senior civil servants from Department of Confusing Affairs have sneaked into his court to spy on him, and if he had a mistress no doubt hopes she would appear before him.

A report has called for major change in the way corporate legal work is regulated.The independent report, Review of the Regulation of Corporate Legal Work, by former senior civil servant Nick Smedley, was commissioned by the Law Society and published last week.

The Guardian: Tributes to Rupert Hughes CBE — senior civil servant who was a key figure in bringing into force the Children Act 1989.

Senior Whitehall sources said Heywood had gone further and advised the most senior civil servants in departments headed by Brexit ministers that there would be occasions when they would have to bypass their ministers and deal solely with him.

It also emerged that between 2007 and 2010, Werritty earned more than # 90,000 as chief executive of the Atlantic Bridge, and that the most senior civil servant in the Ministry of Defence had warned Fox about his connections to Werritty.

The Department for Education is to appoint eight new senior civil servants to head up regional schools commissioner (RSC) offices and help handle their rising workload.