Chapter 8 - Civil Service Reform

Question 1

What are the principles of the Civil Service?

Answer 1

Impartiality
Anonymity
Permanence
Meritocracy (not politically appointed)

Question 2

What is a bureaucracy?

Answer 2

A large organisation that enacts policy and operates according to a clear set of rules and procedures

Question 3

When was Next Steps report that suggested Civil Service reform?

Answer 3

1988

Question 4

Where have the main reforms been in the CS?

Answer 4

Executive Agencies
Marketisation
Managerial Culture
Recruitment
Diversity

Question 5

What is an executive agency?

Answer 5

An agency responsible for the delivery of government policy that is subordinate to a government department but enjoys significant autonomy in its day to day operations

Question 6

What roles were designated to executive agencies?

Answer 6

Policy implementation and delivery of public service to exec agencies (eg. HM Prison Service)

Question 7

Define Whitehall

Answer 7

The UK civil service and government departments, named after the area of London in which many departments are based

Question 8

What is marketization?

Answer 8

The extension of market mechanisms into government and the public sector: for example, by the transfer of the provision of public services to the private sector

Question 9

What percentage of Civil servants were ethnic minorities by 2015?

Answer 9

10.5

Question 10

What percentage of Senior Civil Servants are women?

Answer 10

38.7

Question 11

How much has the Civil Service shrunk in recent years

Answer 11

2010-480,000

2015-406,000

Question 12

Name 4 different concerns about reforms

Answer 12

Fragmentation
Markets and Agencies (eroded public service ethos)
Accountability (blurred lines of)
Politicisation (Govs exerting too much political pressure on CS)