Blog Stats
- 165,441 hits
Colin Talbot is professor of government at the University of Manchester. He writes 'Whitehall Watch' in a personal capacity.
Colin’s Tweets
- RT @jameswilsdon: "I don’t know how we got caught on this treadmill." Willetts tells business schools to ignore journal impact factors http… 27 minutes ago
- RT @cath_haddon: And if you want more history, try the latest history of government blog Cabinet Confidential series ow.ly/lkzi3… 33 minutes ago
- RT @D_Blanchflower: I am mad with @martinwolf_ he wrote this so well it is hard to follow for us mere mortals... I wish I had written it! h… 42 minutes ago
- The House… nottspolitics.org/2013/05/23/the… 7 hours ago
Colin’s latest book
Comment is free…
Please feel free to comment and especially to add your own analyses or experiences. Just click on a blog and go to the comment section at the bottom. Or you can email me at colin.talbot@mbs.ac.ukTop Posts
- Visions of Subsidiarity and the Curse of the British Political Tradition
- The Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything? It’s 43.
- The UK in 2013: A Failing Economy or a Failing State?
- Universities and Public Policy
- Spending Review 2013 – politics trumps planning, again.
- Andy Coulson and and his non 'Developed Vetting' - why on earth did the Civil Service let this happen?
- Why Spending Review 2013?
- UKIP: Building a Party when the "Party" is Over?
- Lies, Damned Lies and Government misuse of official statistics: Select Committee Attacks Government
- Lord O'Donnell Suggests .... that someone rather like him should be put in charge of vetting government policy. Seriously?
Discussion
- colinrtalbot on Visions of Subsidiarity and the Curse of the British Political Tradition
- Brat on Lord O’Donnell Suggests …. that someone rather like him should be put in charge of vetting government policy. Seriously?
- Inquisitive Practitioner on Lord O’Donnell Suggests …. that someone rather like him should be put in charge of vetting government policy. Seriously?
- Chris Wilson on UKIP: Building a Party when the “Party” is Over?
- brian carr on UKIP: Building a Party when the “Party” is Over?
Tags
Audit Commission banking banks book review broadband CAA carers Children's services Civil Service CPA crisis debt Departments DWP efficiency equality government happiness jargon joined up local government media memes Ministers NAO nationalisation NHS Nudge parliament pay performance PFI policy public services Public Value railways reform Select Committees shadow economy social services spending strategy targets Westminister WhitehallMeta
Tag Archives: efficiency
Whitehall inefficiency a thing of the past?
After the government allegedly exceeded its own target to save £21.5bn from its last efficiency drive – the ‘Gershon’ programme 2004-7 – and actually save £26bn, you would think there is little left for the National Audit Office to do. … Continue reading
Efficiency savings urged to ease pain of cuts
from the FT - By Nicholas Timmins Published: March 10 2009 00:39 | Last updated: March 10 2009 00:39
Public Value – the next ‘Big Thing’ in public management?
Are we about to enter a new era of public management? There are good reasons to think that this may be the case.
Posted in Public Management
Tagged efficiency, government, performance, public services, Public Value
Leave a comment
Recruiting civil servants efficiently?
One the NAO’s latest reports points to a small but significant area of inefficiency in Whitehall – recruitment:
Capable in a Crisis?
Sir Gus O’Donnell, head of the UK civil service, in a recent speech outlined why he thought the British civil service would perform well in the current financial and economic crisis. In an article – “Mandarin-tinted glasses” - published in Public … Continue reading
Posted in Performance
Tagged Civil Service, efficiency, government, NAO, performance, Whitehall
Leave a comment
