Gavin Freeguard
Associate
Gavin's recent work
Ministerial directions
Ministerial directions are formal instructions telling departments to proceed with a spending proposal, despite objection from permanent secretaries.
Six lessons government should learn from the Post Office scandal
The handling of the Post Office scandal has wider lessons for government.
Doing data justice
The justice sector needs a system-wide data strategy to address current deficiencies.
All work
Firm direction
Kids Company and ministerial directions.
Staff reductions on the horizon: charting civil service staff numbers
Gavin Freeguard on the challenges of charting multiple government departments.
Members’ exits – and entrances: select committee membership, 2010-15
We look at the 20 select committees whose job is to scrutinise specific government departments.
A sense of direction: when permanent secretaries object to ministerial decisions
What happens when a Permanent Secretary objects to a ministerial decision?
Meet the new select committee chairs
The results of the elections for Select Committee chairs in the 2015-2020 Parliament have just been announced. Gavin Freeguard and Hannah White report
Chair and chair alike: Commons select committee chairs, in five charts
Commons select committee chairs, in five charts.
Fighting FOIA with FOIA
Freedom of information statistics for 2014.
26 Bills Later: Legislation During the ‘Zombie Parliament’
Was the 2013-15 session a ‘zombie parliament’? Gavin Freeguard looks at the law data.
Whitehall Monitor: deep impact?
In this special Whitehall Monitor report, we look at one element of the Coalition’s performance measurement regime: impact indicators.