PASC has been running a fascinating series of inquiries focusing on leadership and change in Government, covering Civil Service reform, the role of the new Head of the Civil Service and a call for shrinking the number of ministers. Yesterday PASC published the Government’s response. There is some common ground and several valuable ‘wins’...

As part of its inquiry into civil service reform, PASC has set itself the challenge of developing a “framework of what constitutes good governance within which civil service reform can be effectively scrutinised and measured”.

At a recent seminar, we decided to take a look under the hood of the Swedish and Canadian consolidations in the 1990s and find out what their administrations actually did. Senior civil servants from both countries gave us much food for thought.