The days after a general election, especially when power transfers to another political party, are a hectic time in government. After campaigning hard and knocking on doors, the new teams and staffers must familiarise themselves with their roles and departmental …
Jane Burgess, a Civil Service Commissioner, writes about the involvement of Ministers in Civil Service appointments.
Almost a thousand public appointments are made each year by ministers to the boards of public bodies like the Land Registry, the Care Quality Commission and Ofsted. These arms-length bodies play a huge part in our communities, making decisions from …
The Committee previously expressed its concerns about some of the government’s proposed changes to the process for Ministerial appointments to public bodies; an issue on which Lord Nolan first reported in 1995. The government’s new Governance Code was published …
