The Minister and the Official: The Fulcrum of Whitehall Effectiveness Contents

Contents

Summary

1 Introduction

2 Civil Service Responsiveness

Civil Service responsiveness

Civil Service values

Excessive responsiveness and the importance of challenge

Help for new ministers

3 Capability and Priorities

Prioritisation

Recruitment

Churn

4 Functional Leadership

Professions and Functions

Accountability

5 Departmental Boards

Role of boards

Board effectiveness

Non-executives’ roles

6 Learning and Development

Civil Service training provision

The future structure of training provision

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal minutes

Witnesses

Published written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament




Published: 18 June 2018