Civil service
Special advisers with greater powers also require greater scrutiny
If the trend of giving special advisers new responsibilities continues, ministers cannot complain when their advisers face greater scrutiny
Reform of the civil service
A series of events looking at the government's plans to reform the civil service.
A No10 data science unit could create more problems than it solves
The plan to create a new data science unit is the latest example of government talking the talk on data
The scrutiny of special advisers
Special advisers play an essential role throughout government. But is their role about to change?
The Huawei U-turn will have wide repercussions
The government’s review of foreign, defence and security policy needs to include trade policy and set out the aims for relations with China
Australia and Canada highlight the dangers of politicising the civil service
Those looking to other countries for warning signs of politicising the UK civil service should pay attention to Canada and Australia
National security adviser
The national security adviser is the central co-ordinator and adviser to the prime minister and cabinet on security, intelligence, defence, and some f
The dangers of No.10’s attempt to take back control of government communications
The interesting move is less the daily press conference than managing government communications from the Cabinet Office
Reform of the centre of government
The problem facing the government ‘machine’ – and recommendations for further reform.
Data Bites #12: Getting things done with data in government
At this Data Bites we heard about health data science in the Covid-19 era, population datasets and MoJ's Data First programme.