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  • 1 week ago | civilserviceworld.com | Tevye Markson |Beckie Smith

    The National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority has appointed a former senior civil servant at the Department for Transport as its first chief executive. Becky Wood, who is currently a partner at consultancy firm EY, will join NISTA in June. Nista was launched on 1 April as a joint unit of the Treasury and the Cabinet Office, created through the merger of the Infrastructure and Projects Authority and the National Infrastructure Commission.

  • 1 week ago | civilserviceworld.com | Jim Dunton |Tevye Markson

    Members of parliament’s Science, Innovation and Technology Committee have given their backing to the appointment of tech entrepreneur Tom Adeyoola as the next executive chair of Innovate UK. Adeyoola founded 3D clothes-modelling business Metail and co-founded not-for-profit organisation Extend Ventures, which aims to support entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds. He is also a board member of TV company Channel 4.

  • 1 week ago | civilserviceworld.com | Tevye Markson |Jim Dunton

    The government is proposing to make four new additions to the Magenta Book, the central handbook for departments on evaluation. The Evaluation Task Force has asked stakeholders from across government and relevant external agencies to provide feedback on the potential updates to the guidance.

  • 1 week ago | civilserviceworld.com | Tevye Markson

    Departments will be required to match-fund the government’s £150m central pot for voluntary redundancy schemes, it has emerged. The chancellor announced a new £3.25bn transformation fund at the Spring Statement, making £250m available in 2025-26 and allocating £150m of it to voluntary exit schemes to reduce the size of the civil service.

  • 1 week ago | civilserviceworld.com | Tevye Markson

    On the structure of the review  • Will the review be cross-government or department-by-department or organisation-by-organisation? • The government has described four principles for the continued existence of ALBs. Will the government publish detailed criteria to assess these principles against? • Will the government develop a comprehensive ‘live’ list of all ALBs?

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