Pat McFadden: ‘There’s a whole lot of change coming’ to the civil service
The government is set to announce big reforms at Whitehall which it hopes will save money and improve performance in a new ‘era of insecurity’. Among those changes are performance-related pay, a faster exit process for under-performing civil servants, and increased digitalisation with the use of AI.
On Sky News, senior cabinet minister Pat McFadden told Trevor Phillips that ‘the state has to reform’, but was coy when asked to specify how many civil servants might be cut. McFadden suggested that the headcount might be lower at Whitehall but higher in other areas of the country, and refused to confirm that the overall number would be lower by the end of this parliament. When pressed on how these changes would save money, McFadden referenced ‘the smart application of technology’ and claimed that what civil servants most want is ‘better performance management’.
Pat McFadden: ‘People are coming to terms with… the scale of change in European security’
This week, the US suspended intelligence sharing with Ukraine, in a move which dramatically weakens Kyiv’s ability to predict large incoming attacks.
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