Working to make government more effective

Working to make government more effective

Oliver Davies

Former research assistant

Oliver was a research assistant working on our Whitehall Monitor and data-viz analysis. He graduated from the University of York with a BA in History in 2019. Since then he has been working in retail, and will be joining the civil service as a generalist on the Civil Service Fast Stream at the end of the year. 

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Ministerial directions

Ministerial directions are formal instructions telling departments to proceed with a spending proposal, despite objection from permanent secretaries.