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Sir Richard Mottram - Reforming the Civil Service: the Next Steps report, 30 years on

Published: May 22, 2018, 2:45 p.m.

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Sir Richard Mottram

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22 May 2018 - 18:15 pm - 19:45 pm

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Council Room, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS

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In 1988 the official report Improving Efficiency in Government: The Next Steps appeared in its final form. It led on to one of the most substantial reconfigurations the UK machinery of government has seen, with the allocation of a wide range of functions to executive agencies. Kate Jenkins, former head of the government's Efficiency Unit and co-author of the report, will provide her perspective on the exercise and its significance, followed with a response by Sir Richard Mottram, whose forty-year career in the Civil Service included a spell in the early 1990s as Permanent Secretary at the Office of Public Service and Science within the Cabinet Office, where his responsibilities included public service change and management. Joining the discussion from an academic perspective will be Dr Andrew Blick (King's College London). Dr Catherine Haddon (Institute for Government) will chair.

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