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Gavin Freeguard
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Gavin's recent work
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Ministerial directions
Ministerial directions are formal instructions telling departments to proceed with a spending proposal, despite objection from permanent secretaries.
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Six lessons government should learn from the Post Office scandal
The handling of the Post Office scandal has wider lessons for government.
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Doing data justice
The justice sector needs a system-wide data strategy to address current deficiencies.
All work
Firm direction
Kids Company and ministerial directions.
Staff reductions on the horizon: charting civil service staff numbers
Gavin Freeguard on the challenges of charting multiple government departments.
Members’ exits – and entrances: select committee membership, 2010-15
We look at the 20 select committees whose job is to scrutinise specific government departments.
A sense of direction: when permanent secretaries object to ministerial decisions
What happens when a Permanent Secretary objects to a ministerial decision?
Meet the new select committee chairs
The results of the elections for Select Committee chairs in the 2015-2020 Parliament have just been announced. Gavin Freeguard and Hannah White report
Chair and chair alike: Commons select committee chairs, in five charts
Commons select committee chairs, in five charts.
Fighting FOIA with FOIA
Freedom of information statistics for 2014.
26 Bills Later: Legislation During the ‘Zombie Parliament’
Was the 2013-15 session a ‘zombie parliament’? Gavin Freeguard looks at the law data.
Whitehall Monitor: deep impact?
In this special Whitehall Monitor report, we look at one element of the Coalition’s performance measurement regime: impact indicators.