“I didn’t take the Tony Benn view that the civil service was party political; that they were somehow against us,” he says.
“The civil service is a living, breathing, hurting animal,” says David Blunkett (pictured above). As a minister, David Blunkett was keen to reform the civil service. Written by Matt Ross on 11 August 2010 in Interview. “We went from secretaries of state having direct influence over the nomination of chairmen for outside organisations and other senior people, to the secretary of state scrambling to hold any influence whatsoever,” says Blunkett. No, he says: the coalition’s bonfire of the quangos is simply a way of whittling down the public sector and centralising powers. However, in light of the interview that the Secretary of State for Transport undertook this morning on Radio 4, what advice are the Government giving to employers who find that their staff are refused access to public transport, whose consequent late or non-arrival at work puts their jobs in jeopardy?
DAVID BLUNKETT: Thank you very much.
David Blunkett interview clip David Blunkett is the Labour MP for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough. In my … But now, he tells Matt Ross, much of the public sector faces an existential threat: a danger of destruction at the hands of its own governmentPerhaps not surprisingly, he found the civil service reluctant to establish such a unit.
Lord Callanan - Hansard. “People were positively discouraged from raising difficult issues on ministerial visits.” But it may also be the case that Blunkett’s occasional tempers or impatience deterred some officials from raising concerns: the famously hard-working politician has an intolerant streak and a penchant for speaking his mind that would, when his second tenure as a minister came under threat in late 2005, leave him without powerful allies even within the Labour cabinet. Yet their level of control over who’s in charge of these organisations has been “very substantially” reduced since the Nolan report, he complains; he argues that ministers should be able to appoint their own permanent secretary. So on arriving as a minister at each department, he attempted to set up “a unit working jointly to my office and that of the permanent secretary, whose job it was to monitor what had happened to the delivery of legislation… or policies, and what was happening on the ground.”Professional skills too have long needed sharpening within government, Blunkett believes; he was, he says, “instrumental in saying that we needed in strategic areas people who had appropriate experience.The assault on quangos, says Blunkett, is simply one element of this roll-back of the state – and it contains a notable paradox: “It was Margaret Thatcher who really started the ‘Next Steps’ programme in both the outside agencies and the non-departmental public bodies – and it’s a son of Thatcher who’s now seeking to ditch them.” But he doesn’t believe that the reduction in arm’s length bodies will clear up the accountability problem.
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