Public bodies
Reforming public appointments
How the new prime minister can make public appointments faster and fairer, by reforming an often chaotic public appointments process.
In conversation with Dame Dr Jenny Harries, Chief Executive of the UK Health Security Agency
The Institute for Government was delighted to welcome Dame Dr Jenny Harries OBE, Chief Executive of the UK Health Security Agency.
Competition and Markets Authority
The Competition and Markets Authority is the UK’s principal authority responsible for competition and consumer protection.
Rail strikes are still the government’s problem
The government cannot credibly refuse to take part in negotiations
Hogan-Howe story shows action is needed on appointments
Appointing Lord Hogan-Howe to head the National Crime Agency would not break any rules – and that is precisely the problem
Rees-Mogg should not turn the public bodies review programme into a purge
The minister for government efficiency should seek better, not just fewer, public bodies.
DVLA during the pandemic: hamstrung by competing priorities
The UK and devolved governments must make complex trade-offs more collaboratively or risk a repeat of DVLA’s pandemic troubles elsewhere.
The government would be wrong to wage another war on ‘quangos’
Government should be more specific about what it wants public bodies to deliver and where it can do without them.
Licence to lead: lessons for public bodies from the pandemic response in health
Government should trust public bodies to lead in crises.
Whitehall Monitor 2022
Major reform is needed for government to respond to crises like the pandemic while simultaneously delivering long-term policy goals.