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...Last week, the top civil servant at the Department for Transport, Dame Bernadette Kelly, told MPs that the private sector at Euston would “ideally fund the station approaches and we are also looking for...
...David Higham, a retired civil servant whose career in northern regional development spanned several governments, said the zones were the latest in a series of policies designed to “build on or leverage scientific...
...More and more councils are warning civil servants that they are financially at risk, while six town halls — Nottingham, Liverpool, Slough, Croydon, Thurrock and Sandwell — are now in Whitehall “intervention...
...The catalogue of governance failures it found are the sort that cause civil servants sleepless nights — even if the mayor and his allies have claimed exoneration....
...Dr Nicola Headlam, a former senior civil servant responsible for regional development, said the system was causing longstanding frustration in local government....
...With civil servants barred from seeking external advice, according to Kelly, Sunak’s announcement took transport delivery bodies and the rail industry by surprise....
...Letter in response to this report:Regrets, misjudgments and spurned opportunities / From Jennifer Fitzgerald, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, UK...
...A Labour government would move 50,000 civil servants out of London and replace the House of Lords with a chamber of just 200 elected representatives under plans set forward by former UK prime minister Gordon...
...“The centralised system of London civil servants making local decisions is flawed,” he wrote on Twitter, noting that many of the funding bids from the West Midlands had been rejected....
...They include train drivers, civil servants and teachers in England and Wales. Public sector workers have been asking for pay rises that make up for inflation....
...Jennifer Granholm, US energy secretary, has described offshore wind as “critical” to the administration achieving its goals....
...Calderdale council is in contact with civil servants about the future of Halifax’s leisure centre....
...While French media have cited one of his nicknames as J’Lo, a riff on his shared initials with US pop star Jennifer Lopez, some employees raised less flattering monikers — including “the Supreme Soviet”....
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...Additional reporting by Jennifer Williams in Manchester and Lukanyo Mnyanda in Edinburgh...
...The writer is chief executive of the Health Foundation Words count — they can motivate or demotivate thousands of public servants and often signal the direction of policy....
...What else we’re reading Farewell to the servant economy First there were Uber drivers who would come to your door at the push of a button....
...A drink-sozzled Marxist captain marshals crew, servants and skivvies in a rigid onboard hierarchy....
...Against this background, the play’s concerns about masters and servants, ownership and displacement, power and mutiny unfold playfully but vividly....
...Retired civil servant David Higham, whose work has included supporting former Conservative deputy prime minister Lord Michael Heseltine on regeneration in the North West, said the borough of Knowsley was...
...Lewis did suggest the takeaways were that the US should have fewer political appointees and more civil servants, so that there would be more experience and fewer “pleasers”....
...Travel Living like a king in Versailles Simon Kuper spent a night at Le Grand Contrôle, a newly opened lavish retreat within the Château’s grounds, where guests are greeted by staff dressed as 18th-century servants...
...The Indonesian government is considering sending thousands of Jakarta-based civil servants to work remotely from Bali, in a bid to help the economy of the tourism-reliant island....
...Prime minister Boris Johnson, whose complaints about the financial sacrifices he is making are familiar to colleagues and civil servants, might offer himself as an example....
...She takes pains to show how frequently their liberty was dependent on the labour of other, less fortunate women: servants, nannies, cooks, seamstresses....
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