Public Administration - Fourth Report
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 26 June 2003.
CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
Summary
1. Introduction
Our focus
A census of the appointed state
Our inquiry
Chapter 1: The principles of public appointment
Securing public confidence
Ministerial responsibility and accountability
Diversity and better public services
Chapter 2: Overseeing the appointments system
The scope of regulation
The regulated and the unregulated—looking
for a rationale
Hidden corners
Prime Ministerial appointments
Ad-hoc advisory bodies
Executive agencies
A radical new look at public bodies
The local appointed state
Tribunals
"Most of them think it is a fix"—public
confidence in the appointments process
Views from public bodies
Evidence on 'cronyism'
Media allegations of 'cronyism'
Effect of suspicions on work of public bodies
The influence of civil servants
The role of independent assessors
The role of recruitment consultants
A stocktake for the appointments system
Separation of powers
Parliamentary oversight
Chapter 3: Building a new civic tradition:
more diversity and better access
Progress towards diversity
Male, pale, stale
The image barrier
Lay representation
A national strategy
Elements of a national strategy
Review of the roles of public bodies and
their members
A single equality act
Remuneration
Pay-related issues
Benefit losses among people with disabilities
Selection by lot—talent hunting
An extension of voting
National and regional bodies
Local public bodies
Positive action
Dilution of standards
Routes to diversity
Mentoring and shadowing
Chapter 4: A public appointments commission
The case for a public appointments commission
Ministerial Responsibility
Conclusion
Conclusions and recommendations
Annex
Prime Ministerial Appointments to Public
Bodies/Crown and Individual Posts
Appointments made by the Crown on the advice
of the Prime Minister
Appointments made by the Prime Minister
Appointments on which the Prime Minister
is expected to be consulted
Formal minutes
Witnesses
List of written evidence
List of unprinted written evidence
Reports from the Public Administration Select
Committee since 2001
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