Listen "How has Covid-19 changed the way government works? Whitehall Monitor 2022 report launch"
Episode Synopsis
The Institute for Government recently published the ninth edition of our annual Whitehall Monitor report on the government’s size, shape and performance.
This report launch explored what Whitehall Monitor 2022 reveals about the way the pandemic has changed how the government works and how the Covid-19 response will sit alongside ministers’ wider agenda for the second half of the parliament.
How has the Omicron variant complicated the government's attempts to move away from crisis management mode? What will increases to departmental spending mean for pandemic backlogs? And what do civil service staff cuts mean for government capability - including its ambitions for civil service reform?
On our panel to discuss these issues were:
Matthew Holehouse, British political correspondent at The Economist
Charlotte Pickles, Director of Reform
Dame Glenys Stacey, Chair of the Office for Environmental Protection
William Wragg MP, Chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee
The event was chaired by Alex Thomas, Programme Director at the Institute for Government.
There was a short presentation of the key findings from the report at the start of the event.
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This report launch explored what Whitehall Monitor 2022 reveals about the way the pandemic has changed how the government works and how the Covid-19 response will sit alongside ministers’ wider agenda for the second half of the parliament.
How has the Omicron variant complicated the government's attempts to move away from crisis management mode? What will increases to departmental spending mean for pandemic backlogs? And what do civil service staff cuts mean for government capability - including its ambitions for civil service reform?
On our panel to discuss these issues were:
Matthew Holehouse, British political correspondent at The Economist
Charlotte Pickles, Director of Reform
Dame Glenys Stacey, Chair of the Office for Environmental Protection
William Wragg MP, Chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee
The event was chaired by Alex Thomas, Programme Director at the Institute for Government.
There was a short presentation of the key findings from the report at the start of the event.
#IfGWM22
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