Civil Service
All Standard Notes
16 Documents
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 20.03.2013 | Election 'purdah' or the pre-election period |
| The period of time from when an election is announced until after the election is held has been known as 'purdah' but is now more often referred to as the pre-election period. This note examines the guidance that has been issued in the past to civil servants before general and local elections, and to local authorities on their activities during the period before local elections. | |
| 13.03.2013 | Civil Service statistics |
| This note sets out statistics on Civil Service employment. | |
| 29.10.2012 | Civil Service Pension Scheme |
| Provides an overview of the development of the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme and current proposals for reform | |
| 07.08.2012 | Special advisers |
| This Standard Note summarises developments regarding Special Advisers since 2000. | |
| 26.07.2012 | Business Appointment Rules |
| This note explains how the rules operate which regulate the appointment of former Permanent Secretaries (and deputy secretaries) and former Ministers to posts in the private sector. | |
| 10.05.2012 | How the UK Government deals with EU Business |
| This Note looks at UK Government and Civil Service structures and culture; what happens at the UK-EU interface, and methods for transposing EU law into UK law. | |
| 23.11.2010 | Civil Service reform |
| This note outlines the Coalition Government's plans for the civil service. It also provides a very brief overview of civil service reform since 1979. | |
| 14.04.2010 | Remaining stages of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill 2009-10 |
| This Note outlines the changes made to the Bill during report stage and third reading in the House of Commons, seconf reading in the Lords and during wash up. | |
| 13.01.2010 | Pre-election contacts between civil servants and Opposition parties |
| By convention, opposition parties are entitled to enter into confidential discussions with senior civil servants in the run-up to a general election. This note outlines the current arrangements and also provides a brief history of the convention. | |
| 23.09.2009 | Civil Service Legislation |
| This note sets out the Government's 2008 proposals for civil service legislation and the responses by the Joint Committee on the Draft Constitutional Renewal Bill and the Public Administration Select Committees. It also includes some details of the Bill published by the Public Administration Select committee, the Private Member's Bills introduced in the House of Commons and House of Lords, and the previous Bill published by the Government. | |
| 03.06.2009 | Crown Employment (Nationality) Bill 2006-07 |
| This Private Member's Bill is due for a second reading on Friday 12 June 2009. This Note gives background to its provisions which are designed to liberalise the nationality requirements for civil servants. | |
| 20.02.2006 | The Civil Service Code |
| This Note looks at the background to the drafting of the current Civil Service Code, which was first issued in May 1996 and gives the text of the new draft code published for consultation by the Cabinet Secretary and the First Civil Service Commissioner on 26 January 2006. | |
| 26.01.2006 | The Lyons and Gershon Reviews and variations in Civil Service conditions |
| Organisational changes to the Civil Service over the past thirty years have meant that the majority of civil servants now work in Departments and Executive Agencies in which the responsibility for pay and conditions are decided locally. Uniform pay structures and conditions of service have been significantly eroded. The Government have launched major reviews into the operation of the civil service and these include the Lyons and Gershon Reviews. | |
| 04.08.2005 | The Osmotherly Rules |
| The Osmotherly Rules, as currently drafted, give guidance on the operation of the Select Committee system, and the role of officials appearing before the Committees, and the central principles of evidence giving, including a section on the limitations on the provision of evidence. | |
| 30.06.2005 | Civil Servants: Employment Rights |
| 19.01.2004 | Changes to Government communications machinery |
| This note sets out the changes made to the Government Information and Communications Service at No 10 following the interim Phillis Review, published in August 2003. |
All Research Papers
2 Documents
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 25.02.2010 | Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill: Committee stage report |
| There were some significant amendments during the Committee Stage of this Bill. The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority was given control over setting Members' pay and pensions by amendments to the Parliamentary Standard Act 2009. There is to be a new Compliance Officer to investigate alleged misuse of Members' allowances; amendments would ensure that all MPs and peers would be liable to UK taxes; there would be a referendum on whether to adopt the Alternative Vote by 31 October 2011; and a new requirement on Returning Officers to begin election counts four hours after a general election poll closes. | |
| 20.05.2003 | Whither the civil service? |
| Whither the civil service? . House of Commons Library Research Paper 03/49. |
