Civil Service effectiveness inquiry

Inquiry by the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, 20 September 2017 to 19 March 2019. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• 5th Report - The Minister and the Official: The Fulcrum of Whitehall Effectiveness (18 June 2018)
• 11th Special Report - Government Response to the Committee’s Fifth Report: The Minister and the Official: The Fulcrum of Whitehall Effectiveness (5 March 2019)

Evidence sessions

• 7 November 2017: Catherine Baxendale, Independent HR Consultant and Sir Amyas Morse KCB, Comptroller and Auditor General, National Audit Office
• 21 November 2017: Dave Penman, General Secretary and Gareth Hills, President, FDA, Paul O’Connor, Head of Bargaining, Public and Commercial Services, and Garry Graham, Deputy General Secretary, Prospect.
• 5 December 2017: Frances Maude, Former Minister for the Cabinet Office, and Baroness Finn, former Government adviser on Civil Service reform; Oliver Letwin MP, former Minister for Government Policy, Cabinet Office (at 10.30am).
• 19 December 2017: Professor Andrew Kakabadse, Henley Business School, Julian McCrae, Institute for GovernmentSir Ian Cheshire, Government Lead Non-Executive, Catherine Brown, Cabinet Office non-executive
• 15 January 2018: Sir Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary, John Manzoni, Permanent Secretary, and Rupert McNeil, Chief People Officer, Cabinet Office.
• 1 May 2018: Oliver Dowden MP, Parliamentary Secretary, Minister for Implementation, Rupert McNeil, Chief People Officer, Cabinet Office