A decade ago, Lord Francis Maude led a ground-breaking review of government efficiency that delivered £52 billion in savings and created the Government Digital Service. In autumn last year, he was asked by the current administration to revisit that work to gauge current Civil Service capability and performance in critical operational functions like finance, procurement, HR, IT and digital.
Lord Maude's recently published findings - Review of the Cross-Cutting Functions and the Operation of Spend Controls - have again played a key role in setting the direction of Civil Service reform. He joins us on this episode to drill into those recommendations and discuss how public sector reform will play out in the coming years.
