This newsletter reports and analyses the latest news concerning the UK Civil Service, including concerns about its effectiveness and its relationship with ministers. There are also occasional forays into regulation.
I used be a Senior Civil Servant in the Business Department and the Cabinet Office. I then became Chief Executive of the Better Regulation Executive, the postal industry regulator Postcomm, and the Competition Commission.
My publications are a major resource for those interested in the Civil Service. My website attracts c.500,000 page views a year and I have sold c.7,000 copies of How to be a Civil Servant. It is therefore important that my writing is kept accurate and up-to-date. So please do not hesitate to email me with corrections and additions to anything that I have written.
My publications include:
Civil Servants, Ministers and Parliament: The Westminster Model:-
Impartiality, Accountability & all that, andSpeaking Truth to Power: How to have people listen to your advice and act on it, as well as …
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Martin Stanley
