Sean Worth gives evidence on the civil service at the Public Administration Committee

Tuesday, 08 January 2013

Sean Worth gives evidence on the civil service at the Public Administration Committee

Synopsis

Watch Sean speak from 11:21:57 on Parliament TV

Sean Worth, Head of Policy Exchange's Better Public Services Project and former special adviser to David Cameron, gives evidence to the Public Administration Committee on problems with the civil service. Among the many points Sean makes, he cites former Tesco CEO Terry Leahy from his talk at Policy Exchange (see here) arguing that top people from the private sector should be brought in to the civil service on high pay to perform the top echelon roles.

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