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Neither Australia’s Department of Defence nor Britain’s Ministry of Defence have formally announced Australian involvement in the drone strikes, which are apparently the consequence of a shortage of British pilots due to “stresses of piloting deadly unmanned aircraft”. The secretive Australian involvement in the Middle East drone strikes was revealed by Drone Wars (a monitor of unmanned aircraft use) after it was detailed in attachments to Britain’s Infrastructure and P...

MPs on the public accounts committee (PAC) have criticised the government’s inability to deliver major projects on time and to budget, as well as the lack

By Jordan Marshall2021-01-29T12:28:00+00:00 Report highlights risk that tax payers will not get value for money from major projects The Public Accounts Committee has raised concerns about the private sectors ability to deliver the government’s £600bn infrastructure pipeline, calling into question transparency on major projects as well as skills among senior leaders. In a report the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said it required reassurance that the public and private sector were up to t...

By Jonathan Owen2021-01-27T06:00:00+00:00 A major review into the programme has been pushed back to next month The team responsible for the Palace of Westminster restoration and renewal programme has no idea of the likely cost of the work, or even how long it could take, Building can reveal. A source said that it would take at least two years of “hard work” to produce an outline business case “which will have in it costs for which we can be certain and therefore people can make choices�...

By Jonathan Owen2021-01-19T06:01:00+00:00 Review into scheme due out this month The true cost of the Palace of Westminster refurb programme is likely to be at least £12bn – three times higher than previously thought estimates of £4bn, according to sources close to the programme. Building understands that senior officials from the Infrastructure and Projects Authority briefed Number 10 on the true cost of the programme last year. More than 40,000 problems have been reported with the fabric...

Review into scheme, which has official price tag of £4bn, due out this month

Leading into 2021: 21 civil service leaders preview the year ahead With the coronavirus still affecting the country, but immunisation on the way, 2021 could be a year of both challenges and of recovery. As part of our online roundup, CSW asked senior leaders for their thoughts on the 12 months ahead. Here are 21 of their reflections London New Year fireworks PA   We have to deal with the twin effects of getting Covid down to manageable proportions and getting all the rest of health and medical...

Civil service COO and Cabinet Office perm sec role should be split, says Maude Reforming ex-minister tells MPs he believes “head of civil service” post should alternate between cabinet secretary and COO Francis Maude appears before PACAC on 12 January 2021 13 Jan 2021 Former Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has called for the reform of the two most senior Whitehall roles as part of a drive to underscore the importance of operational delivery across the civil service and focus on cross-...

IPA chief executive Nick Smallwood Whitehall’s measures to avoid low-ball bidding will not increase the risk of price fixing, two authors of the Construction Playbook have said. As previously reported, the new guidance for government procurement includes a provision designed to prevent jobs being awarded to low-ball bidders with clients being obliged to refer any bid that is more than 10 per cent below the average of its competitors’ to the Cabinet Office for extra scrutiny before it can be...