Covid will ‘reset’ attitudes to contingency planning, Chisholm tells MPs
Cabinet Office perm sec says there is “no question” government’s pandemic response could have been better
Alex Chisholm appears before the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee on 18 May 2021
19 May 2021
Cabinet Office permanent secretary Alex Chisholm has told MPs he believes the inquiries into the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic will “reset the dial” on contingency planning in Whitehall.
Chisholm told a Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee meeting yesterday that work is already “ongoing” to increase resilience across departments and that it is undeniable that the response could have been better. He was speaking ahead of the publication of a National Audit Office report setting out initial lessons to be learned.
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Cab sec ‘not told’ about PM’s plans for trust to bankroll No.10 refurb
Simon Case was unaware of controversial proposals until media reports emerged in February, Cabinet Office confirms
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06 May 2021
Cabinet secretary Simon Case was in the dark for months about prime minister Boris Johnson’s controversial proposals to set up a trust fund that would pay for upgrade work at Downing Street, it has emerged.
The PM’s plan to use donations to cover the cost of refurbishment at No.10 and No.11 first hit the headlines in late February – the same time the Cabinet Office has now confirmed that Case learned about the scheme.
Cabinet Office to review civil service’s approach to apprenticeships
Strategy eyes “focus on quality and rigour” that goes “beyond a numerical target”
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05 May 2021
Departments are being told to adopt an “apprenticeships first” approach to recruitment over the coming year and ensure they hit a target of recruiting apprentices equivalent to 2.3% of their workforce. But a new strategy document published by the Cabinet Office says the government is “revising its approach” to apprentices.
More than four years on from the launch of the original apprenticeship strategy that set the 2.3% target and sought the creation of 30,000 new government apprenticeships by 2020, the Cabinet Office said it was time to revise Whitehall’s approach to on-the-job training.