Guidance: Extended ministerial offices: guidance for departments
In June 2013 the government published an independent report by the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR): ‘Accountability and Responsiveness in the Senior Civil Service’. It explored the support...
View ArticlePolicy paper: Encouraging social action
The Encouraging Social Action paper provides an update on the government’s achievements and commitments regarding:the giving of moneythe giving of timecommunity action encouraging young people to be...
View ArticleConsultation outcome: Cyber security organisational standards: call for evidence
Updated: Government response published.The government intends to select and endorse an organisational standard that best meets the requirements for effective cyber risk management. There are currently...
View ArticleGuidance: Common areas of spend: data definitions
Updated: Published an updated version of 'Common Areas of Spend: Fraud, Error & Debt'.The Common Areas of Spend (CAS) work aims to establish agreed standard guidance and definitions by which...
View ArticleGuidance: Business Statements: Office of the Leader of the House of Commons,...
Updated: Added Business Statement for 28 November 2013The above files are the Business Statements by the Leader of the House of Commons for November 2013.The Business Statement takes place every...
View ArticleOpen consultation: Big Lottery Fund triennial review: call for evidence
On 21 November 2013 the Minister for Civil Society announced the start of the triennial review of the Big Lottery Fund. This is being conducted as part of the public bodies reform requirement for all...
View ArticleCorporate report: The Cabinet Committees system and list of Cabinet Committees
Updated: Updated list of Cabinet Committees and membersCabinet and Cabinet Committees are groups of ministers that can take collective decisions that are binding across government. The Cabinet is the...
View ArticleCorrespondence: Martha Lane Fox resignation letter
Baroness Martha Lane Fox has announced her resignation from her role as digital champion. Read her letter and the Prime Minister’s response.
View ArticlePolicy: Reforming the constitution and political system
Updated: Updated details of Succession to the Crown Act; progress on the draft Bill about the recall of MPs and Mental Health (Discrimination) Act.IssueThe government is working to reform our political...
View ArticleCollection: Triennial review reports
Updated: Link to Youth Justice Board triennial review added.In April 2011, Cabinet Office announced that all non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) still in existence following the reforms brought...
View ArticleSpeech: Government property strategy speech
IntroductionYou can tell a lot about a government’s priorities by looking at its buildings.To think of totalitarian regimes of the past conjures up images of large monotone concrete office blocks....
View ArticlePress release: Award-winning property project saves £60m for the taxpayer
7 government agencies are moving their HQs next year to a newly renovated 80,000 square foot building in Bloomsbury Street, London, releasing 8 properties back to the open market. The deal reduces the...
View ArticleGuidance: The Office of the Parliamentary Counsel: guidance
Updated: Money Bills guidance document added.This page contains guidance about the drafting of legislation, produced by the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel for members of that office.
View ArticleSpeech: UK and China's long-term relationship: Prime Minister’s speech
Well, thank you very much, Premier Li, and thank you for what you said about our relationship becoming more strategic, becoming more significant, for operating at a higher speed and getting to a higher...
View ArticleTransparency data: Diversity in public appointments
Public appointments are ministerial appointments to the boards of public bodies. They are regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments. This is the first year that the government has published...
View ArticlePolicy paper: Government Digital Strategy: action 12
The Government Digital Strategy commits each government department to carrying out 14 actions. Action 12 is that Cabinet Office will continue to work with departments to remove legislative barriers...
View ArticlePolicy paper: Government Digital Strategy: action 5
The Government Digital Strategy commits each government department to carrying out 14 actions. Action 5 is that all departments will redesign services handling over 100,000 transactions each year. This...
View ArticlePolicy paper: Government Digital Strategy: action 6
The Government Digital Strategy commits each government department to carrying out 14 actions. Action 6 is that from April 2014, all new or redesigned transactional services will meet the digital by...
View ArticlePolicy paper: Government Digital Strategy: action 7
The Government Digital Strategy commits each government department to carrying out 14 actions. Action 7 is that corporate publishing activities of all 24 central government departments will move onto...
View ArticlePolicy paper: Identity assurance: enabling trusted transactions
Updated: Added SAML profile specifications guidance.ApplicabilityCentral government departments, their agencies, non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) and any other bodies for which they are...
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