Archive for cabinet office
Government goes over-the-top in boasting about how it is centralising decisions
Philip Green’s report into how the government could save money was initially rather dominated by the way he has arranged his own personal tax affairs. Some of his ideas were also far from good – such as the idea that the government should become a slow payer of bills to small businesses – but there [...]
What Philip Green has recommended
A quick update to my blog post about Sir Philip Green’s report into public sector savings. Here’s the official summary of his report from the Cabinet Office: Efficiency Review by Sir Philip Green – Key Findings and Recommendations
The Cabinet Office’s IT plans
The possibilities of better use of technology to improve government have often come up on this site, so readers may find of interest what the Cabinet Office’s Draft Structural Reform Plan (a set of priorities for each department) says on the matter: 3.1 Increase powers of CIO to drive the integration and improve value for [...]
Met Police and Home Office put on special measures for breaking rules
One for the bureaucratic irony files this. The Information Commissioner has announced that 33 public sector bodies have so regularly broken the rules on responding to Freedom of Information requests that they have been put in special measures. The 33 bodies are all being required to fully document how they handle future requests and report [...]
New guidelines on Twitter use for election
PR Week has a story this week about the new social media guidelines for civil servants during a general election: The Cabinet Office published General Election Guidance 2010 last week for government departments, which includes details about comms activities during the general election. For the first time, the guidance outlines that ‘use of Twitter may [...]
Cabinet Office breaks the law, again
Regular readers of The Voice may be familiar with my correspondence with the Cabinet Office and the tales of how the Cabinet Office has lost correspondence, failed to comply with data protection access requests and ignored requests made under the Freedom of Information Act. In short, the Cabinet Office’s administration is frequently chaotic and on [...]
Cabinet Office: correspondence chaos update
Back in September I blogged about how difficult it’s been to get a response from the Cabinet Office to a small complaint I had about possible misuse of letterheads by Gordon Brown:
Tally so far: two emails [via the Cabinet Office website] and one letter from me plus four letters from my MP spread out over nine [...]
Cabinet Office: correspondence chaos
It’s all a bit rum. Back in December I put in a complaint via the Cabinet Office website about Gordon Brown. It was a pretty minor issue – using government letterhead for partisan purposes – but given how stringent the rules imposed on other bodies around the country, it seemed to me worth all of oooh 30 seconds to [...]
