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The Institute for Government recently published the ninth edition of our annual Whitehall Monitor report on the government\u2019s size, shape and performance.\n\nThis report launch explored what Whitehall Monitor 2022 reveals about the way the pandemic has changed how the government works and how the Covid-19 response will sit alongside ministers\u2019 wider agenda for the second half of the parliament.\n\nHow has the Omicron variant complicated the government's attempts to move away from crisis management mode? What will increases to departmental spending mean for pandemic backlogs? And what do civil service staff cuts mean for government capability - including its ambitions for civil service reform?\n\nOn our panel to discuss these issues were:\n\nMatthew Holehouse, British political correspondent at The Economist\nCharlotte Pickles, Director of Reform\nDame Glenys Stacey, Chair of the Office for Environmental Protection\nWilliam Wragg MP, Chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee\nThe event was chaired by Alex Thomas, Programme Director at the Institute for Government.\n\nThere was a short presentation of the key findings from the report at the start of the event.\n\n#IfGWM22