Published 1989
by H.M.S.O. in London .
Written in
Edition Notes
| Statement | presented by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury in association with the Minister of State, Privy Council Office. |
| Series | Cm -- 914 |
| Contributions | Great Britain. Privy Council. |
| ID Numbers | |
|---|---|
| Open Library | OL21065863M |
| ISBN 10 | 0101091427 |
Table of Contents Notes on the Contributors - The Origins of the Next Steps Programme; & gs - Ministerial Responsibility and the 'Next Steps' Agencies; - 'Next Steps' and Parliamentary Scrutiny; obe - The Treasury Committee and 'Next Steps' Agencies; gs - Departmental Select Committees and the 'Next Steps' Programme; r & Financial Author: Philip Giddings. Abstract. At one level, the Next Steps initiative and the creation of the executive agencies might have been expected to make little difference to the work of the National Audit Office (NAO) or the Committee of Public Accounts (PAC), because the agencies have remained very largely funded by voted by: 1. the Next Steps program, are appointed on fixed-term contracts; and a similar school head’s agency has created an invisible power structure putting his accountability practice in paradox Author: Shamsul Haque. The Treasury Committee and Next Steps Agencies. Philip Giddings. Pages Departmental Select Committees and the Next Steps Programme. David Natzler, Paul Silk. Pages Financial Accountability: Agencies and Audit. Priscilla Baines. Pages Members of Parliament and Agencies: Parliamentary Questions this book assesses.
Describes how the enhancement of accountable management in the public sector, through the Financial Management Initiative, the Next Steps Agencies and, most recently, market testing, has brought. Written by members of the Study of Parliament Group, this book assesses Parliament's response to the reorganisation of much of the civil service into 'executive agencies'. Chief executives have been given freedom to take operational decisions. For example, this can be seen in the UK public sector in terms of the establishment of Executive Agencies following the Next Steps Initiative (NSI) (Efficiency Unit, ) and the importance placed on societal outcomes in the funding of activities in the delivery of social programmes (HM Treasury, ), as well as in a host of other changes in. financial and accounting functions of the Secretariat. This manual seeks to streamline the functions of all the elements within this system to ensure that all the activities of the Secretariat are carried out in a systematic manner so as to safeguard and add value to assets as well as facilitate and enhance financial reporting.
How would you define the role of agency leaders in transforming agencies to be ready for the future? Transformation starts at the top. The CEO needs to build a . 11 Next Steps Agencies: Management Reform in the Civil Service 12 Next Steps Agencies: The Problems of Accountability; 13 Comparative Perspectives on Accountability and Constitutional Reform; Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter. Please. Koop offers another example of how actor accountability can be measured, namely through the operationalization of the de jure accountability obligations of independent agencies. Brandsma (, pp. –) provides an overview of a range of indicators of de facto actor accountability. Ford’s turnaround illustrates the transforming power of four essential Steps to Accountability—steps that are always present in organizations exemplifying true accountability. In our first book, The Oz Principle, we identified these essential and timeless steps: See It, .
