Julian McCrae
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Leading Functions Across Whitehall
Stronger leadership of functions could play a part in making Whitehall more effective in a number of ways. However the problems that stronger function
The spending round: What to watch for on Wednesday
The announcement of the results of the 2015-16 spending round is almost upon us.
The 2015/16 Spending Round
Fiscal consolidation is taking longer than planned. The Chancellor announced in the 2010 Emergency Budget that the budget deficit would be balanced wi
Finance function: time for a Whitehall shake-up?
What’s the role of finance at the centre of any complex sets of organisations?
Financial leadership for government
This paper analyses the evolving functions of finance. While control of money and budgets remains a core role, finance teams are increasingly taking o
Improving decision making in Whitehall
The Institute for Government, in partnership with CIMA and Deloitte, looked at a number of areas within Whitehall where the use of management informat
The dull bits of avoiding plane and political crashes
It's worth spending some of the energy now focused on UKBA and the Home Office thinking about the dull bits of accountability.
Transformation in the Ministry of Justice
The Institute for Government's 2011 report on the progress of the Ministry for Justice's ‘Transforming Justice' programme.
The fiscal squeeze: now it gets real
Today marks the start of the government's financial year, and with it the point when our fiscal squeeze gets real.