By D. Richards
The 1st critical research analysing Labour's influence on Whitehall. It deals a theoretical engaged, yet empirically wealthy account drawing from an intensive set of fundamental interview fabric to envision a 'New Labour' impact at the Civil carrier, together with its reforms to enhance coverage supply and even if it has politicised Whitehall. It concludes via arguing that New Labour's method of Whitehall were a part of a broader technique to reconstitute the ability of the Westminster version.
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MINIS was accompanied by Joubert; an organisational structure that apportioned the DoE into 120 ‘cost centres’, each with an annual budget to cover running and staff costs. This enabled the minister to compare actual expenditure with planned expenditure and conduct systematic budget reviews. Heseltine argued MINIS improved both the efficiency and the effectiveness of the DoE. Elsewhere in Whitehall, Heseltine’s initiatives were greeted with scepticism. The one department that did support Heseltine’s scheme was the Treasury (Treasury and Civil Service Committee: 1982) which recommended that an equivalent of MINIS should be introduced across Whitehall.
But the Attlee Government embraced the approach established some twenty years earlier by the Party leadership and instead went with the status quo. ’ The Party leadership remained enthralled by the shadow cast by the Westminster model. 13 They embraced a benign view of Whitehall, believing it would offer the requisite support to ensure the Party’s manifesto would be enacted and therefore there was no need for serious reform. 14 During this period, it was again left to the wider Labour movement’s intellectual wing to raise a siren voice.
They say ‘Go and reform this’, but they do not understand how you change things or attitudes. (Very senior Cabinet Office official interviewed by the author – September 1999) 31 32 New Labour and the Civil Service This chapter examines the extent to which the 1979 Conservative Administration, often portrayed as a radical reforming government, continued the tradition of its predecessors by pursuing reform within the broader confines of the Westminster model. It suggests that the Conservative approach to Whitehall should be understood as transformative, not revolutionary because it was unwilling to embrace a radical New Right critique of the Westminster model.
