Guest blog: Why mandarins matter - a response
In his recent comments to the Institute for Government about the Civil Service, the Cabinet Office Minister with responsibility for policy, Oliver Letwin MP, made a claim about the views of the House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) which can only be described as a distortion of what we recommended in our recent report, Strategic thinking in Government: without National Strategy, can viable Government strategy emerge? (HC 1625 24 April 2012).