Sentences with phrase «written by civil servants»

But the content of this report was written by civil servants, not Baker.

The Conservatives are insisting Baker's comments reflect only his own party's views and that they remain committed to a tough approach to drugs, but the report was signed off by Theresa May and written by civil servants.

Not exact matches

The classical introduction to Buddhism in Japan was written by Sir Charles Eliot, that fabulous British civil servant, titled simply Japanese Buddhism.

He won't do emails — insisting, instead, on working with a fountain pen as he goes through his red box each morning issuing marching orders to civil servants by writing on their papers.

«It therefore appears that this was not properly drawn up by civil servants in order to avoid conflicts of interest in government, but hastily cobbled together after Mr Crosby had become a political embarrassment to the Conservative party,» Trickett wrote in a reply to Heywood's letter.

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.

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.

Written questions are essentially answered by civil servants.

Written by the DfE's top civil servant, Chris Wormald, it has found no instances of the DfE ignoring «specific warnings» of extremism in schools.

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