Bernard Jenkin’s new inquiry into the civil service doesn’t even mention devolution – yet it will determine the size and shape of Whitehall
Bernard Jenkin isn’t only the chair of a busy Commons committee,he is also a main light of the out campaign to leave the EU – which isn’t going to pack up and depart home, whatever the outcome on June 23. And now the public administration and constitutional affairs committee has just announced a mega inquiry into the civil service – structure, and effectiveness and all – and is collecting evidence double rapid/fast,by early June. Maybe Jenkin and fellow MPs will remedy this when they sit down to planned, but already they seem to have fallen prey to Whitehall’s chronic disease – myopic departmentalism. That’s odd because under Jenkin, and the former public administration select committee singled out lack of strategic co-ordination as one of the centre’s besetting faults.
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Source: theguardian.com