Emily Andrews | Institute for Government

Working to make government more effective

Emily was an Associate Director at the Institute leading our Performance Tracker, a data-driven assessment of the performance of Government. Emily led our report on digital in government, as well as working on central government responsibilities and the Whitehall Monitor report. Before that, she completed a Wellcome-funded PhD on senile dementia in 19th-century Britain, at the University of Warwick. She began her career as a secondary school teacher in London.

25 JAN 2017 Analysis paper

Whitehall Monitor 2017

The Government is trying to do too much as it prepares for Brexit, according to our analysis.

12 DEC 2016 Comment

Social care funding is another sticking-plaster

Headlines show that government is failing to take a long-term approach to the spending challenge

02 NOV 2016 Comment

Making a success of digital government

The success of digital reform in this Parliament will rely on a new kind of leadership – involving the whole of government

27 OCT 2016 Report

Making a success of digital government

Government could save up to £2 billion by 2020 if it gets better at using technology.

24 OCT 2016 Interview

Stephen Crabb

Stephen Crabb was interviewed on 24 October 2016 for the Institute for Government’s Ministers Reflect project.

18 MAR 2016 Comment

The Civil Service is 18% smaller than in 2010. Now what?

17 DEC 2015 Comment

Civil Service staff numbers at the Spending Review

The Civil Service gets smaller, but is not yet small enough for the government.

08 DEC 2015 Comment

Minding their PQs

Written parliamentary questions under the Coalition Government.

23 NOV 2015 Comment

Government needs to eat its own data

How to ensure government data is available, useful and used.

17 NOV 2015 Analysis paper

Whitehall Monitor 2015

Whitehall Monitor aims to chart government – literally. We analyse and visualise numbers from and about government.