Finn Baker
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Whitehall Monitor 2024: Part 2
Recommendations for civil service reform covering the workforce, ministers, the centre of government, policy making, digital and AI, and resilience.
Whitehall Monitor 2024: Part 1
Analysis of how the civil service continued to change in 2023 - including its size, structure, turnover and budgets.
Whitehall Monitor 2024: Foreword
Introducing the analysis in Whitehall Monitor 2024.
Rishi Sunak’s reshuffle should be the last big one before the election
A period of stability in the government ranks is needed.
Cabinet reshuffle – November 2023
The IfG team analysed all the ministerial moves as Rishi Sunak reshuffled his cabinet and David Cameron made a return to frontline politics.
Privy council
The privy council is formally a body of advisers to the King.
Ministers’ private offices
Every government minister has a private office. This is a small team of civil servants dedicated to supporting ministerial duties and decisions.
Caretaker government
The phrase ‘caretaker government’ describes a government that holds office subject to certain temporary restrictions on what it may do.