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Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215561077 Total Pages :166 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (61 download)
Book Synopsis Government and IT - "a recipe for rip-offs" by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee
Download or read book Government and IT - "a recipe for rip-offs" written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Additional written evidence is available in Volume 3, available on the Committee website www.parliament.uk/pasc
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215561060 Total Pages :68 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (61 download)
Book Synopsis Government and IT - A Recipe for Rip-Offs by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee
Download or read book Government and IT - A Recipe for Rip-Offs written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Government's over-reliance on large contractors for its IT needs combined with a lack of in-house skills is a "recipe for rip-offs" according to a report by the Public Administration Select Committee (PASC). The Committee found that as a result IT procurement too often resulted in late, over budget IT systems that are not fit for purpose. According to some sources the Government pays between seven and ten times more than the standard commercial rate for its work: however the Government does not collect the information needed to verify these claims. One of the report's recurring themes is the dominance of Government IT by a small number of large companies. The report argues that the Government needs to do four things to break out of this relationship: improve the information it holds on IT expenditure, without which the Government is unable to secure the best possible price for goods and services; publish more information about IT projects; widen the supplier base by reducing the size of its contracts and greatly simplifying the procurement process to engage with innovative Small and medium enterprises (SMEs); work in a more "agile" manner andmove towards the use of more iterative development methods which enable IT programmes to adapt to ever changing challenges
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Public Administration Select Committee Publisher : ISBN 13 :9780215041500 Total Pages :47 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (415 download)
Book Synopsis Government and IT - a Recipe for Rip-offs by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Public Administration Select Committee
Download or read book Government and IT - a Recipe for Rip-offs written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Public Administration Select Committee and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government IT procurement strategy is still lacking in its commitment to independent benchmarking of contracts with transparent data, failing to understand the risks of legacy systems, remains unclear about how to address the IT skills gap with sufficiently senior and experienced people, and must move faster to implement 'digital by default' to design better IT services. Government must build "in house" contracting capacity if it is to achieve its intended cost reductions and address the significant challenges facing it in large procurement projects. This follow up report commends the Government for its generally constructive and proactive response, but points out key areas where the intended course of action will not be sufficient to address "the scale of behavioural and process change required across government" to achieve its own aims of becoming an "intelligent" customer. The Government has also failed to respond at all to the call for an investigation into the charge that the large systems integrators operate in the manner of a cartel. The report concludes that a lack of up-to-date and accurate information about government IT made it impossible to identify potential overcharging, leading to the waste of an "obscene amount of public money". It recommends an independent investigation into allegations of cartel-like behaviour among suppliers, and that the Government work with "independent and specialist advisers and the NAO" to "seek to identify reliable and comparable cost benchmarks, and collect accurate information from departments in order to compare with those benchmarks."
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Public Administration Select Committee Publisher : ISBN 13 :9780215043870 Total Pages :7 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (438 download)
Book Synopsis Government and IT - a Recipe for Rip-Offs by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Public Administration Select Committee
Download or read book Government and IT - a Recipe for Rip-Offs written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Public Administration Select Committee and published by . This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government response to HC 1724, session 2010-12 (ISBN 9780215041500). That report contained Government response & further report to HC 715-I (ISBN 9780215561060) & 715-II (ISBN 9780215561077) of session 2010-12
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :0215071670 Total Pages :36 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (15 download)
Book Synopsis Too Soon to Scrap the Census - HC 1090 by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee
Download or read book Too Soon to Scrap the Census - HC 1090 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2014-04-17 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the start of this Parliament, the Minister for the Cabinet Office indicated the ten-yearly census should be axed and the 2011 census should be the last. But in this report the Public Administration Select Committee urges the government not to scrap the 2021 census. Good figures on the people in the country are of fundamental importance to the statistical system, policy makers and society more widely, and the ten-yearly census gives detailed information on small areas. This report follows the National Statistician's announcement in March 2014 that she recommends that Government keep the Census in 2021, but that it should be conducted largely online, and that the Government should make much greater use of the data which it already holds in order to improve the accuracy of population estimates. The Committee supports the recommendation from the National Statistician, but urges the Office for National Statistics to do much more to make the best use of the data which the Government already collects, for example through the Department for Work and Pensions, HM Revenue and Customs and the Department of Health. The Committee says that the Office for National Statistics' work on the future of the Census has, to date, been limited, and recommends that the Office for National Statistics now sets out a much more ambitious vision for the use of this data to provide rich and valuable population statistics.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee Publisher :Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215058706 Total Pages :92 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (587 download)
Book Synopsis Communicating statistics by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee
Download or read book Communicating statistics written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee and published by Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this report the Public Administration Select Committee recommends that departmental press officers and government statistics staff should work together much more closely to ensure that press releases give an accurate and meaningful picture of the truth behind the figures. Government statistics press releases do not always give a true and fair picture of the story behind the statistics, sometimes going too far to create a newsworthy headline. And the Committee says the ways that statistics are presented can be a challenge even for expert users. The lay user is left confused and disengaged. The Office for National Statistics website makes figures hard to find and statistics are often presented in a confusing way, for example, in formats which are not easily understandable. Other recommendations include: the UK Statistics Authority should work proactively to bring together and clearly present key statistics, from various sources, around common themes or events, such as elections and referendums, as well as broader topics such as the labour market and economic trends; the ONS website must be improved; the Statistics Authority should find more creative ways of communicating statistics, for example, through interactive guides; publication of more raw data in machine-readable format for experts who want the full results, not just the edited highlights presented in releases for a mass audience; government statisticians produce thousands of pieces of data on demand, known as 'ad hoc statistics' and these should be published proactively, rather than simply in reaction to requests.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215049452 Total Pages :104 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (494 download)
Book Synopsis Special Advisors in the Thick of it by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee
Download or read book Special Advisors in the Thick of it written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-10-14 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Public Administration Select Committee says special advisers (SpAds) should be 'men and women of standing and experience' with a legitimate and valuable function to play in government, but they need better training and support to prevent future problems and misunderstandings about their role and conduct. Ministers must recognise that they have responsibility, not just accountability, for the conduct of their special advisers, and actively ensure that they are fully aware of what their advisers are doing in their name. The Committee says that it remains concerned that this responsibility has 'proved to be more theoretical than actual' and says it cannot recall any minister ever resigning over the conduct of a special adviser, despite some astonishing cases. PASC says that the special advisers' role protects the impartiality of the Civil Service, by performing tasks which it would be inappropriate for permanent, impartial officials to perform, and helping to ensure that the Government's policy objectives are delivered, but that ministers must be able to justify that the tasks they undertake are in the public interest. Despite concerns raised by PASC's predecessor Committee more than ten years ago, the training and support for new special advisers remains inadequate. The Committee makes a number of recommendations including that the PM's Adviser on Ministers' Interests should be empowered to instigate his own investigations of potential breaches of the Ministerial Code, so that the Prime Minister is not able to protect his ministers from appropriate investigation of the conduct of their advisers, and that the PM's Adviser should himself be independently appointed and subject to a pre-appointment hearing
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Public Administration Select Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :0215085841 Total Pages :37 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (15 download)
Book Synopsis HC 1152 - Our Work in the 2010-2015 Parliament by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Public Administration Select Committee
Download or read book HC 1152 - Our Work in the 2010-2015 Parliament written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Public Administration Select Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2015 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of a small number of cross-government select committees, this Committee has gained a perspective on the state of Whitehall and its agencies which is not available to departmental select committees. Throughout the past five years, the recurring theme of their findings and recommendations reflects the importance of effective leadership in creating effective organisations. It is the positive or negative attitudes and behaviour in the people and the culture of an organisation which determines success or failure. Structures, processes and systems are important too, but preoccupation with these so often becomes a distraction from the real problems, which are about why people do not share information for the common good, collaborate effectively and trust one another. PASC took control of the process of selection of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) away from the Government altogether, so that for the first time Parliament has appointed its Ombudsman. They have also held many pre-appointment hearings for the Chairs of public bodies and were the first Select Committee to refuse to accept a government nomination for the chair of a public body. The Government was forced to re-run the selection for the post of Chair of the UK Statistics Authority under a new selection panel, and to propose a different candidate. They also hold hearings on PHSO's thematic reports, to interrogate and hold to account those who must respond to its recommendations. PASC has worked together effectively as a team despite political differences and the often controversial issues tackled
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :0215070895 Total Pages :52 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (15 download)
Book Synopsis More Complains Please! - HC 229 by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee
Download or read book More Complains Please! - HC 229 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How complaints are handled determines the quality of the relationship between consumers and public services. The best performing organisations welcome complaints as a way of engaging consumers. A failure to recognise the importance of complaints leads to insufficient redress for the individual, limits the impact that complaints have in improving services, and alienates the public. In some parts of public services, there are encouraging signs of increased attention to good complaints handling. However, Government as a whole cannot be said to be complying with best practice in complaints handling or adapting to the needs and expectations of today's citizen. Success depends on the right leadership. The Committee recommend that: there should be a minister for government policy on complaints handling; the primary objective of the Cabinet Office review of complaints handling in Government should be to change attitudes and behaviour in public administration at all levels in respect of complaints handling; in respect of complaints from MPs handled by ministers, replies must be accurate, clear and helpful and with no sharing of confidential information or delegation of responsibility for responding; the Government should create a single point of contact for citizens to make complaints about government departments and agencies; and the Government should provide leadership to those responsible for various parts of administrative justice, to ensure that there is a clear and consistent approach to sharing, learning and best practice.
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Public Administration Select Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :021508456X Total Pages :45 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (15 download)
Book Synopsis HC 111 - Lessons For Civil Service Impartiality From The Scottish Independence Referendum by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Public Administration Select Committee
Download or read book HC 111 - Lessons For Civil Service Impartiality From The Scottish Independence Referendum written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Public Administration Select Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2015 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Report has been compiled so that lessons may be drawn for future referendums. On 18 September 2014, the Scottish public voted for Scotland to remain part of the United Kingdom. The roles played by civil servants in both Scotland and London in the Scottish referendum last summer were subject to criticism and controversy. The referendum campaign exposed two major issues: first, the question of how a unified Civil Service can serve both HM Government and the Scottish Government; and second, the challenges to Civil Service impartiality generated by the Scottish independence referendum. Particular concerns were raised about the Scottish Government's White Paper, Scotland's Future, which included a description of the SNP's proposed programme for government that was contingent upon their winning the 2016 Scottish Parliament elections. This did not uphold the factual standards expected of a UK Government White Paper and raised questions about the use of public money for partisan purposes. There was also concern that the publication of normally confidential advice by the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury called into question the impartiality of the Civil Service. The Committee concludes that parts of the White Paper should not have been included in a government publication. Civil servants should not be required to carry out ministers' wishes, if they are being asked to use public funds to promote the agenda of a political party, as was evident in this case.
Book Synopsis The Economic Constitution by : Tony Prosser
Download or read book The Economic Constitution written by Tony Prosser and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been little analysis of the constitutional framework for management of the UK economy, either in constitutional law or regulatory studies. This is in contrast to many other countries where the concept of an 'economic constitution' is well established, as it is in the law of the European Union. Given the extensive role of the state in attempting to resolve recent financial crises in the UK and elsewhere in Europe, it is particularly important to develop such an analysis. This book sets out different meanings of an economic constitution, and applies them to key areas of economic management, including taxation and public borrowing, the management of public spending, (including the Spending Review), monetary policy, financial services regulation, industrial policy (including state shareholdings) and government contracting. It analyses the key institutions involved such as the Treasury and the Bank of England, also including a number of less well-known bodies such as the Office for Budget Responsibility. There is also coverage of the international context in which these institutions operate especially the European Union and the World Trade Organisation. It thus provides an account of the public law applying to economic management in the UK. This book also adopts a critical approach, assessing the degree to which there is coherence in the arrangements for economic management, the degree to which economic policy-making is constrained by constitutional norms, and the degree to which economic management is subject to deliberation and accountability through Parliament, the courts and other institutions.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :0215068084 Total Pages :64 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (15 download)
Book Synopsis Caught Red Handed: Why We can't Count on Police Recorded Crime Statistics - HC 760 by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee
Download or read book Caught Red Handed: Why We can't Count on Police Recorded Crime Statistics - HC 760 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the next ten years, development aid in the form of grants should be replaced for lower middle income countries. DFID should continue to channel some of its finance through multilaterals, making greater use of their specialist skills and expertise rather than replicating these within its own bilateral programmes. DFID should also establish a financial instrument team, prepare a development finance strategy and publish a Development Finance White Paper during 2014. This strategy should include consideration of whether to establish a UK development bank. The overwhelming drive in UK aid should continue to focus on lifting people out of poverty and meeting post-2015 development objectives. The UK should continue to fund the development and delivery of key services to the very poorest people in low income countries through a system of grants. We should also continue to channel 0.7 % of GNI into development cooperation. But, to support structural transformation in lower middle income countries a significant proportion of future UK development finance should also be delivered via a system of concessional loans and other financial instruments
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215048387 Total Pages :442 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (483 download)
Book Synopsis Sessional Returns by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons
Download or read book Sessional Returns written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On cover and title page: House, committees of the whole House, general committees and select committees
Book Synopsis OECD Public Governance Reviews: Estonia and Finland Fostering Strategic Capacity across Governments and Digital Services across Borders by : OECD
Download or read book OECD Public Governance Reviews: Estonia and Finland Fostering Strategic Capacity across Governments and Digital Services across Borders written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication examines public governance arrangements in Finland and Estonia in two key areas: whole-of-government strategy steering and digital governance.
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Public Administration Select Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215058782 Total Pages :238 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (587 download)
Book Synopsis The Role of the Charity Commission and Public Benefit by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Public Administration Select Committee
Download or read book The Role of the Charity Commission and Public Benefit written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Public Administration Select Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report into the implementation of the Charities Act 2006 finds the Charity Commission being asked to do too much, with too little. The charitable sector is at the heart of UK society, involving millions of people and £9.3 billion received in donations in 2011/2012. Around 25 new applications for charitable status are received by the Charity Commission every working day. Among the reports findings are: one of the keys tests set by the Charities Act 2006 for determining charitable status-the public benefit test-is critically flawed; the Government should revise the statutory objectives for the Charity Commission, to allow the Commission to focus its limited resources on regulating the sector; the proposal to increase the financial threshold for compulsory registration of a charity with the Charity Commission should be rejected; charities should publish their spending on campaigning and political activity. PASC criticises the way the Charity Commission has interpreted public benefit under the Act. The Committee also considered the impact of face-to-face fundraising, or "chugging"-on the street or on the doorstep-and warns that self-regulation has failed so far to generate the level of public confidence which is essential to maintain the reputation of the charitable sector. The evidence was clear that the regulation of fundraising remains a concern for many members of the public. Two in three people have reported feeling uncomfortable as a result of the fundraising methods used by some charities.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee Publisher :Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215058737 Total Pages :132 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (587 download)
Book Synopsis Public engagement in policy making by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee
Download or read book Public engagement in policy making written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee and published by Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this report the Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) calls for a "wiki" approach to policy-making, where public opinion, ideas and contributions are sought and welcome at any and all stages of the policy cycle. The Government should be able to demonstrate that it has adopted this approach alongside ministerial leadership and responsibility for policy and its outcomes. All policy making carries risks: a lack of appetite for participation, disappointment arising from unrealistic expectations and the dominance of vested interests. Government must frankly assess and address these risks in relation to open policy making. Digital technology has a significant role to play in opening up policy-making. Government could and should go further and embrace radical and innovative approaches, making use of existing platforms and technologies, such as Twitter. The success and impact of public engagement in policy-making must be effectively measured. Government must able to demonstrate value for money and improved outcomes with this new approach, particularly in a time of austerity. The Committee says proposals for both "open" and "contestable" policy-making demonstrate that Government recognises the value of public opinion in helping to identify problems and develop solutions. However, for open policy-making to work, it must be a genuine departure from more traditional forms of policy-making, where public engagement has usually only occurred after the Government has already determined a course of action. Care must be taken to ensure that open policy-making processes are not dominated by vested interests or 'the usual suspects' who are aware of policy 'opportunities'.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215042781 Total Pages :74 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (427 download)
Book Synopsis Future oversight of administrative justice by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee
Download or read book Future oversight of administrative justice written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Administrative justice" includes the procedures used by public authorities for making decisions in relation to individual people, the law that regulates decision-making, and the systems (such as the various tribunals and ombudsmen) that enable people to challenge these decisions. There are around 650,000 administrative justice hearings each year - more than three times the number of criminal justice hearings - and it is estimated that resolving citizen's complaints costs central government over £500 million per year. The functions of the Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council (AJTC) include keeping the whole administrative system under review and considering ways to make the system accessible, fair and efficient. The Government proposes to abolish the AJTC using powers in the Public Bodies Act 2011, and to give its functions to the Ministry of Justice. It is expected to bring forward the necessary secondary legislation later this year. The Committee finds that the Government's rationale for winding up the AJTC is questionable, that the Ministry of Justice may not have either the resources or the expertise to take on its functions and doubts the level of cost savings that the Government estimates will be achieved. The Committee also recommends that the House of Commons Justice Committee take its findings from this inquiry into account when it considers the Government's proposed legislation.
