Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Children, Schools and Families Committee
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215543172
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
work of the Committee In 2008-09 : Third report of session 2009-10, report, together with formal Minutes
The Work of the Committee In 2008-09
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Children, Schools and Families Committee
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215543172
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
work of the Committee In 2008-09 : Third report of session 2009-10, report, together with formal Minutes
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215543172
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
work of the Committee In 2008-09 : Third report of session 2009-10, report, together with formal Minutes
The Work of the Committee In 2008-09
Author:
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215542533
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
work of the Committee In 2008-09 : First report of session 2009-10, report, together with formal minutes, and written Evidence
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215542533
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
work of the Committee In 2008-09 : First report of session 2009-10, report, together with formal minutes, and written Evidence
The work of committees in 2008-09
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Liaison Committee
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215544742
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
work of committees In 2008-09 : Second report of session 2009-10, report, together with formal minutes and Appendices
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215544742
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
work of committees In 2008-09 : Second report of session 2009-10, report, together with formal minutes and Appendices
The Work of the Committee In 2008-09
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215543257
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
work of the Committee In 2008-09 : First report of session 2009-10, report, together with formal Minutes
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215543257
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
work of the Committee In 2008-09 : First report of session 2009-10, report, together with formal Minutes
Work of the Committee in 2008-09: Second Report of Session 2009-10 Report, Together with Formal Minutes and Written Evidence
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Committee on Human Rights
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780108459245
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
A report that provides an overview of the Committee's work during the 2008-09 parliamentary session and draws attention to improvements to the human rights landscape in the UK which it has commended in reports during the year. It also mentions a number of continuing areas for concern.
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780108459245
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
A report that provides an overview of the Committee's work during the 2008-09 parliamentary session and draws attention to improvements to the human rights landscape in the UK which it has commended in reports during the year. It also mentions a number of continuing areas for concern.
Top Pay in the Public Sector
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215542847
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
This report calls for a Top Pay Commission to 'name and shame' public sector organisations that pay excessive salaries to their top officials. The Commission would produce principles and benchmarks to be followed by pay setters and would be able to launch investigations where these were breached. PASC believes a Top Pay Commission would ensure greater coherence to the setting of top pay across the public sector. PASC concludes that massive increases in private sector executive salaries over the last ten years have led to smaller, but sometimes still very large, increases at the top of the public sector. This 'contagion effect' has meant that the highest salaries in both sectors have increased much faster than average earnings. PASC also identified a number of weaknesses with current arrangements for setting pay in the public sector. These include variable levels of transparency, tensions between devolved and centralised pay setting systems, a perception that some public servants have been rewarded for failure and a tendency for some parts of the public sector to compete against others for a small number of experienced candidates, rather than growing talent internally. Some of the Committee's other key recommendations include: a call for better human resource management across the public sector, to ensure talent is promoted from within and failure is not rewarded; recommendations that would lead to publication of salaries and bonuses across the public sector more in line with the requirements placed on listed companies; and a proposal to ensure all public sector executive reward packages are drawn up either by independent bodies or remuneration committees with a majority of independent members
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215542847
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
This report calls for a Top Pay Commission to 'name and shame' public sector organisations that pay excessive salaries to their top officials. The Commission would produce principles and benchmarks to be followed by pay setters and would be able to launch investigations where these were breached. PASC believes a Top Pay Commission would ensure greater coherence to the setting of top pay across the public sector. PASC concludes that massive increases in private sector executive salaries over the last ten years have led to smaller, but sometimes still very large, increases at the top of the public sector. This 'contagion effect' has meant that the highest salaries in both sectors have increased much faster than average earnings. PASC also identified a number of weaknesses with current arrangements for setting pay in the public sector. These include variable levels of transparency, tensions between devolved and centralised pay setting systems, a perception that some public servants have been rewarded for failure and a tendency for some parts of the public sector to compete against others for a small number of experienced candidates, rather than growing talent internally. Some of the Committee's other key recommendations include: a call for better human resource management across the public sector, to ensure talent is promoted from within and failure is not rewarded; recommendations that would lead to publication of salaries and bonuses across the public sector more in line with the requirements placed on listed companies; and a proposal to ensure all public sector executive reward packages are drawn up either by independent bodies or remuneration committees with a majority of independent members
Goats and tsars
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215544612
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
This report from the Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) concludes that the practice of appointing ministers from outside Parliament via the House of Lords should be exceptional and subject to more checks and balances. Introducing a wider range of experience into ministerial teams can sometimes make government more effective, but government could also achieve this by making greater use of the range of talent on their own backbenches. The Committee argues for more scrutiny of outside appointments when they are made. The Prime Minister would be required to explain to the House of Commons why an appointment had been made, under what terms and what was expected of the minister during their time in government. The prospective appointee could be required to attend a pre-appointment select committee hearing. PASC identifies a strong argument of principle that ministers in an unelected House of Lords should be accountable to all Members of the House of Commons. People who have been appointed to the Lords to be ministers should not automatically receive a title and place in the legislature for life. It may be preferable to have a limited number of ministers who are members of neither House but accountable to both. The Committee also examined the role of so-called 'tsars'. There should be much more transparency about such appointments, with greater clarity about their roles and responsibilities and a public statement of what they have achieved in their posts.
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215544612
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
This report from the Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) concludes that the practice of appointing ministers from outside Parliament via the House of Lords should be exceptional and subject to more checks and balances. Introducing a wider range of experience into ministerial teams can sometimes make government more effective, but government could also achieve this by making greater use of the range of talent on their own backbenches. The Committee argues for more scrutiny of outside appointments when they are made. The Prime Minister would be required to explain to the House of Commons why an appointment had been made, under what terms and what was expected of the minister during their time in government. The prospective appointee could be required to attend a pre-appointment select committee hearing. PASC identifies a strong argument of principle that ministers in an unelected House of Lords should be accountable to all Members of the House of Commons. People who have been appointed to the Lords to be ministers should not automatically receive a title and place in the legislature for life. It may be preferable to have a limited number of ministers who are members of neither House but accountable to both. The Committee also examined the role of so-called 'tsars'. There should be much more transparency about such appointments, with greater clarity about their roles and responsibilities and a public statement of what they have achieved in their posts.
Sessional returns
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215554451
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
On cover and title page: House, committees of the whole House, general committees and select committees
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215554451
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
On cover and title page: House, committees of the whole House, general committees and select committees
Corporate Governance in Contention
Author: Ciaran Driver
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192527665
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Corporate governance is a complex idea that is often inappropriately simplified as a cookbook of recommended measures to improve financial performance. Meta studies of published research show that the supposed benign effects of these measures - independent directors or highly incentivised executives - are at best context-specific. There is thus a challenge to explain the meaning, purpose, and importance of corporate governance. This volume addresses these issues. The issues discussed centre on relationships within the firm e.g. between labour, managers, and investors, and relationships outside the firm that affect consumers or the environment. The essays in this collection are the considered selection by the editors and the contributors themselves of what are seen as some of the most weighty and urgent issues that connect the corporation and society at large in developed economies with established property rights. The essays are to be read in dialogue with each other, giving a richer understanding than could be obtained by shepherding all contributions into a single mould. Nevertheless taken together they demonstrate a shared sense of deep concern that the corporate governance agenda has been and still is on the wrong track. The contributors, individually and collectively, identify in this compendium both a research programme and a platform for change.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192527665
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Corporate governance is a complex idea that is often inappropriately simplified as a cookbook of recommended measures to improve financial performance. Meta studies of published research show that the supposed benign effects of these measures - independent directors or highly incentivised executives - are at best context-specific. There is thus a challenge to explain the meaning, purpose, and importance of corporate governance. This volume addresses these issues. The issues discussed centre on relationships within the firm e.g. between labour, managers, and investors, and relationships outside the firm that affect consumers or the environment. The essays in this collection are the considered selection by the editors and the contributors themselves of what are seen as some of the most weighty and urgent issues that connect the corporation and society at large in developed economies with established property rights. The essays are to be read in dialogue with each other, giving a richer understanding than could be obtained by shepherding all contributions into a single mould. Nevertheless taken together they demonstrate a shared sense of deep concern that the corporate governance agenda has been and still is on the wrong track. The contributors, individually and collectively, identify in this compendium both a research programme and a platform for change.
Dramas at Westminster
Author: Marc Geddes
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526136821
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Based on unprecedented access to the UK Parliament, this book challenges how we understand and think about accountability between government and Parliament. Drawing on three months of research in Westminster, and over forty-five interviews, this book focuses on the everyday practices of Members of Parliament and officials to reveal how parliamentarians perform their scrutiny roles. Some MPs become specialists while others act as lone wolves; some are there to try to defend their party while others want to learn about policy. Amongst these different styles, chairs of committees have to try to reconcile these interpretations and either act as committee-orientated catalysts or attempt to impose order as leadership-orientated chieftains. All of this pushes and pulls scrutiny in competing directions, and tells us that accountability depends on individual beliefs, everyday practices and the negotiation of dilemmas. In this way, MPs and officials create a drama or spectacle of accountability and use their performance on the parliamentary stage to hold government to account. Dramas at Westminster: Select committees and the quest for accountability offers the most up-to-date and detailed research on committee practices in the House of Commons, following a range of reforms since 2010.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526136821
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Based on unprecedented access to the UK Parliament, this book challenges how we understand and think about accountability between government and Parliament. Drawing on three months of research in Westminster, and over forty-five interviews, this book focuses on the everyday practices of Members of Parliament and officials to reveal how parliamentarians perform their scrutiny roles. Some MPs become specialists while others act as lone wolves; some are there to try to defend their party while others want to learn about policy. Amongst these different styles, chairs of committees have to try to reconcile these interpretations and either act as committee-orientated catalysts or attempt to impose order as leadership-orientated chieftains. All of this pushes and pulls scrutiny in competing directions, and tells us that accountability depends on individual beliefs, everyday practices and the negotiation of dilemmas. In this way, MPs and officials create a drama or spectacle of accountability and use their performance on the parliamentary stage to hold government to account. Dramas at Westminster: Select committees and the quest for accountability offers the most up-to-date and detailed research on committee practices in the House of Commons, following a range of reforms since 2010.