Sentences with phrase «told by civil servants»

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.

Not exact matches

«It's quite easy to bulk up capacity by recruiting low to mid-level civil servants, often generalists with a few years experience,» the Institute For Government's Joe Owen told BI.

In the late 1970s a Home Office Minister, advised by his Civil Servants, told me there was no paedophile problem in the United Kingdom despite the evidence presented to him by a deputation of MPs.

The reasons why Quick raided Green's Commons office nearly nine years ago can be traced back even further, to a day in 2006 when a young civil servant called Christopher Galley, working in Jacqui Smith's Home Office, was allegedly told by Green, then opposition immigration spokesman, to get «as much dirt on the Labour party, the Labour government, as possible».

He told the civil servants not to be attentive to speculation being peddled around by his opponents that he would retrench them.

Trade body officials visiting Davis at the Brexit department report being taken aside by civil servants and told to go in saying that Brexit opens up many possibilities.

«Mister Johnson,» now directed by Bruce Beresford in his first film since «Driving Miss Daisy,» tells the story of an African civil servant, known to all as Mister Johnson, who works as a clerk in the office of the British district administrator.

The writers of Yes (Prime) Minister were actually told by both politicians and civil servants stories of «what had happened».

We were told to say this by the Civil Servants handing out our research grants...

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.