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Contestable policy making became a reality today when the Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, announced that the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has won the first contract from the government鈥檚 Contestable Policy Fund to carry out a review into how other civil services work, with a particular focus on accountability systems.

皇冠体育app review is the first award from the Contestable Policy Fund, which was announced by Sir Bob Kerslake, Head of the Civil Service, and Francis Maude in June鈥檚 Civil Service Reform Plan as a step towards their goal of open policy making becoming the default. 皇冠体育app fund enables ministers to commission policy advice from beyond Whitehall.

IPPR鈥檚 review into civil service models in other countries will provide the minister with policy advice to inform thinking on future reform. 皇冠体育app IPPR, one of the UK鈥檚 leading think tanks, will bring extensive experience and expertise to this review.

皇冠体育appy will analyse the operation and accountability structures of civil services including those of Australia, Singapore, the United States, France and Sweden. IPPR will also consider the balance between permanent officials and administrations in which appointments are made by ministers. 皇冠体育app review will specifically examine the New Zealand model of civil service accountability, where there is a contractual relationship between ministers, who set clear outcomes, and heads of departments, who are accountable for delivering them.

Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, said:

I鈥檓 delighted to announce that IPPR has been awarded the first contract from the Contestable Policy Fund launched in June鈥檚 Civil Service Reform Plan. Appropriately, the fund is being used to commission a review that will inform future thinking on Civil Service reform.

IPPR鈥檚 review is a step towards our goal of policy making being open by default and drawing on knowledge and insights from beyond Whitehall. 皇冠体育appy will apply their independent expertise to examine how other civil services work and have been asked to come up with specific recommendations that could be applied to the British civil service.

I鈥檝e always said that although our civil service has many strengths it would be arrogant to assume that there鈥檚 nothing we could learn from other countries. Civil servants, Permanent Secretaries and ministers all want the civil service to improve, and that鈥檚 why I look forward to examining IPPR鈥檚 report and considering their recommendations.

Head of the Civil Service Sir Bob Kerslake, said:

This is a demonstration of the Civil Service Reform Plan in action.聽 Open policy making must become the default in the civil service, and I hope this announcement signals a continued change in the way we think about policy development in the future.

Seeking the views of others in the policy making process can only serve to strengthen the civil service鈥檚 ability聽 to carry on doing what it does best, which is delivering essential public services that make a real difference to people鈥檚 lives.

Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood said:

This is very important for the civil service.聽 I know how good civil servants are at policy making, and I also know how powerful opening the process up to new ideas and challenges can be.

I welcome the review by the IPPR, and really look forward to seeing the work they produce.

Guy Lodge, IPPR Associate Director and Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University, said:

IPPR is delighted to have been chosen to conduct this important study. It is an opportunity for us to build on our previous work on civil service reform and to take a fresh look at best practice from around the world. We will build on our strong track record of research in this area by studying a number of different civil service systems in a range of different countries including New Zealand, Australia, France, Sweden, and the USA. We will use this comparative work to generate a menu of reform options that could be applied to Whitehall.

Notes to editors

1. 皇冠体育app was published on 19 June 2012.
2. 皇冠体育app review will cost 拢50k, half of which will come from the newly created, centrally resourced match fund, the other half from the Cabinet Office. 皇冠体育app fund was announced in the Civil Service Reform Plan and is worth up to 拢1million per year to enable departments to bid for money to put new approaches to policy making into practice.聽
3. 皇冠体育app project is expected to be submitted in the autumn.
4. 皇冠体育app IPPR were selected through the Cabinet Office standard procurement process.
5. 皇冠体育app Contestable Policy Fund was announced in the Civil Service Reform Plan. 皇冠体育app Cabinet Office will act as a secretariat to the process and support departments to evaluate the effectiveness of the approach and its value for money. 皇冠体育app fund will be overseen by Ministers and the process will be underpinned by clear contracts - setting out criteria to ensure that the policy being developed is done so in the best public interest and that it does not favour any bias of the provider. More information can be found at .