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Governments aren’t startups

Gulf-Times 15 Apr 2025
But one also hears similar rhetoric in the United Kingdom, where Cabinet Office Minister Pat McFadden wants the government to foster a “test-and-learn” culture and move toward performance-based ...
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‘Electoral wake-up call’: dozens of Labour MPs risk losing majorities over welfare cuts

The Observer 14 Apr 2025
Just ask Kevin . John Harris. Read more ... Map ... map ... In Pat McFadden’s Wolverhampton seat, it is about one in seven, similar to the seat of the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, in Houghton and Sunderland South.skip past newsletter promotion ... He said.
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Home Office spends nearly £1,000 sending staff on 'Swedish dog massage' course | Daily Mail Online

The Daily Mail 13 Apr 2025
The Home Office has been sending staff on 'Swedish dog massage' courses, it was revealed today ... A government spokesman said ... Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden has ordered Whitehall departments to crack down on spending on government credit cards ... .
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Home Office staff sent on Swedish dog massage course

The Daily Telegraph 12 Apr 2025
Last month, Pat McFadden, the Cabinet Office minister, announced a crackdown on Whitehall’s use of government-issued credit cards after mandarins were caught spending on luxury away days and Fortnum & Mason goods.
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Starmer’s gutting of Cabinet Office reverses Dominic Cummings’ failed revolution

The Daily Telegraph 11 Apr 2025
The Cabinet Office, headed by Pat McFadden, the former political secretary to Sir Tony Blair and a Starmer loyalist, is leading the charge in reforming the machine ... Labour Party, Keir Starmer, Dominic Cummings, Cabinet Office, Pat McFadden.
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Starmer slashes third of Cabinet Office staff

The Daily Telegraph 10 Apr 2025
The Cabinet Office, headed by Pat McFadden, is the strategic centre of the British state, working on cross-departmental initiatives and supporting the Prime Minister ... Keir Starmer, Civil service, Pat McFadden.
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Cabinet Office to axe 2,100 civil servant jobs

BBC News 10 Apr 2025
Sources say Cabinet Office chief Pat McFadden wants to "lead by example" on civil service reform ... .
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UK’s Cabinet Office to cut nearly 2,100 posts as Labour targets Civil Service reform

The Times of India 10 Apr 2025
... jobs—under Labours civil service reform agenda led by Pat McFadden.
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Cabinet Office to axe third of jobs in cost-cutting drive

The Times/The Sunday Times 10 Apr 2025
Pat McFadden, the chancellor for the Duchy of Lancaster, is cutting 1,200 posts and moving 900 roles to other departments over the next two years ... • All 20,000 civil service credit cards frozen in spending crackdown ... UK ... .
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Pseudoscience, a salad garden and a study on pregnant men: How Britain’s quangos spend your money

The Daily Telegraph 10 Apr 2025
Could Labour really be about to unleash another “bonfire of the quangos”? Pat McFadden, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, certainly appears minded to do so ... But they have long been a love/hate affair for governments of all stripes ... Copy link ... .
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Rachel Reeves bans the A-word

New Statesman 09 Apr 2025
“You can’t call it austerity,” cried a Labour MP ... Pat McFadden’s Cabinet Office has revived an earlier crisis by initiating simultaneous recruitment drives for permanent secretaries in three major departments, replacing departing female mandarins.
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Government Could Axe Hundreds of Quangos to Cut Costs and Improve Efficiency

The Epoch Times 08 Apr 2025
... bureaucracy – saving the taxpayer money and cutting the cost of ‘doing government,'” Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden said in a statement on Monday.
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Keir Starmer’s war on quangos is doomed to fail unless he is bolder

AOL 08 Apr 2025
Pat McFadden, who runs the Cabinet Office responsible for Whitehall, has asked every department to justify the existence of quangos within their bailiwick ... As a signal of intent, McFadden is drafting ...
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