Daniel Howes
Research Assistant
All work
Financial Reporting Council
What is the Financial Reporting Council? What does it do? What powers does it have?
Permanent secretaries
This explainer looks at the role of permanent secretaries, the most senior civil servants.
Office for Nuclear Regulation
The Office for Nuclear Regulation's mission is to protect society by ensuring the safety of all nuclear operations. But how does it regulate?
Whitehall Monitor 2026: Methodology
The methodology underpinning the analysis in Whitehall Monitor 2026.
Whitehall Monitor 2026: Conclusion
Rewiring the state?
Whitehall Monitor 2026
Labour’s efforts to ‘rewire the state’ aren’t addressing longstanding workforce problems.
Whitehall Monitor 2026: Part 2 - The state of the civil service
Analysis of how the civil service changed in 2025, including its size, structure and morale, and the approach to digital transformation and AI.
Whitehall Monitor 2026: Part 1 - The government
Analysis of the political and permanent secretary changes of 2025, and the progress of 'mission-led' government.
Whitehall Monitor 2026: Foreword and Overview
Introducing the analysis in Whitehall Monitor 2026, and summarising the key messages.
Tracker: The government’s proposed new public bodies
What were the public bodies promised in Labour’s election manifesto and what has been delivered since its entry into government?