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The stated aims in the Labour government’s 1999 ‘Modernising Government’ White Paper are sometimes perceived to Whitehall, the Treasury and Policy-Making 31 be an example of Tony Blair picking up where Thatcher and Major left off in making civil servants think more like business people and move away from traditional Civil Service values (Chapman and O’Toole, 2010, p. 124). The Citizen’s Charter was continued in some form, too. Critics also point to a decline in ministerial integrity and further politicisation of the Civil Service taking place under New Labour in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
188) suggests that Treasury officials could be somewhat unaware of the real world, stating that ‘very few officials have any substantial experience outside that department and many have none at all. Highly intelligent though they are, reasoning and Whitehall, the Treasury and Policy-Making 39 imagination are no substitute for experience’. Whilst he says that this may not be a huge problem when formulating macroeconomic policy, he adds that it is ‘more dangerous when it is applied to issues on which the Chancellor and his officials are less well informed and is likely to prove more damaging.
350–1). Pliatzky (1989, p. 161) states that ‘the Treasury’s work … has a high policy content and is not of an operational nature’ – a point also made by Bridges (1964, p. 13). Terry Burns (1998, pp. 3–4) describes an environment where officials of all ranks are able to play a significant role in the policy-making process: staff are absorbed in their work and excel in the task of policy advice. Compared to most other government organisations, it is a collegiate, 38 Policy-Making in the Treasury non-hierarchical organisation, largely untrammelled by internal rules of who does what.
