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 ...
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 ... .
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.
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 ... .
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 ... .
“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.
... 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.
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 ...