Sentences with phrase «staffed by civil servants»

Those centers, however, are largely staffed by civil servants and not trained scientists, Fujii explained.

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Part of my rationale for speaking so strongly here is that Kevin called into question the integrity of the Tax Policy Center, a group staffed by highly respected former civil servants, by calling their work «scientifically indefensible» and «fiction».

A footnote in PESA 1996 stated «This covers the pay costs of civil servants and others (including casual staff) covered by running costs plus Ministry of Defence's operating costs regime» and we found that (for those years only) the paybill included the whole of the armed forces pay.

With recent staff changes in the DfT, the BMF also warn that it also means that there is now no one senior from the DfT, either civil servant or minister, who was involved at the outset of the review, a review set up to address a revised testing regime that had seen new tests introduced by the DSA and hundreds of test centres close.

The definitions remained fairly stable until in 2004 an efficiency review conducted by Sir Peter Gershon led to the reclassification of a large number of civil servants (mainly prisons, courts, and immigration staff) out of administration costs.

[142] It is staffed by a mix of career Civil Servants and Special Advisers.

The highest ranking Civil Servant position is the Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, currently [update] Peter Hill; the most senior Special Adviser post is the Downing Street Chief of Staff, currently [update] held by Gavin Barwell.

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.