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Multi-billion pound energy challenge

June 29, 2012

The National Audit Office this week published a report: The government’s long-term plans to deliver secure, low carbon and affordable electricity. (more…)

No, minister

June 20, 2012

Tucked away in Tuesday’s publication by Francis Maude MP of the latest Civil Service Reform Plan was an apparently innocuous proposal in chapter two about improving the quality of policymaking. The government is planning to spend £1 million in a three-year pilot starting next month on “contestable” policymaking, whereby ministers can “commission external policy development (for example, by academics and think-tanks)”. (more…)