Argument for Civil Servants making the decisions in policy making
- Created by: Amy Hanson
- Created on: 18-04-13 21:00
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- Civil Servants make policies?
- Ministers become very reliant on civil servants to do various types of work
- the types of work vary but include things such as giving them advice on political issues to organising their day to day duties
- higher civil servants prepare legislation, looking at alternative policies and drawing up answers for questions.
- it can take 7 years to become qualified to draft a bill
- the Permenant Sectretary is responsible to the minister for what goes on in their department
- have to direct and supervise most the department's normal work, perhaps 85-90% of it
- Civil servants serve 20 years compared to 2 and a half years for a Minister
- the civil servants are aware of different areas of policy but these may conflict with the government's priorities
- Ministers become very reliant on civil servants to do various types of work
- Civil servants serve 20 years compared to 2 and a half years for a Minister
- the civil servants are aware of different areas of policy but these may conflict with the government's priorities
- this essentially means that a minister might give a general idea but the civil servants will create the ins and outs of the policies
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