Twelfth report of session 2010-11
Title | Twelfth report of session 2010-11 PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: European Scrutiny Committee |
Publisher | The Stationery Office |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 2011-01-17 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780215555892 |
Twelfth report of Session 2010-11 : Documents considered by the Committee on 15 December 2010, including the following recommendations for debate, Audit policy; Energy 2010; European Citizens' initiative; EU budget review; financial management, report, to
Sessional Returns
Title | Sessional Returns PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons |
Publisher | The Stationery Office |
Pages | 442 |
Release | 2012-09-14 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780215048387 |
On cover and title page: House, committees of the whole House, general committees and select committees
Twenty-second report of session 2010-11
Title | Twenty-second report of session 2010-11 PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: European Scrutiny Committee |
Publisher | The Stationery Office |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 2011-03-24 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780215557100 |
Twenty-second report of Session 2010-11 : Documents considered by the Committee on 16 March 2011, report, together with formal Minutes
HC 287 - Government Motoring Agencies - the User Perspective
Title | HC 287 - Government Motoring Agencies - the User Perspective PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee |
Publisher | The Stationery Office |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 2014-10-07 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0215075897 |
The Government's motoring agencies are undergoing reorganisation and are introducing digital services; both changes have potential to bring welcome improvements. The Government has a mixed approach to organisational change in the agencies with different emphasis on efficiency savings, restructuring, and private sector involvement across the agencies. It needs to do more to explain the future direction for all the motoring agencies and how it will create a more unified service. The agencies could do more to recognise and respond to the needs of business users. There are a number of specific areas that require action by the Government and its motoring agencies: the driver Certificate of Professional Competence may not be delivering all the benefits expected of it and the Government should negotiate changes at a European level; the agencies need to have effective assisted digital strategies in place to help those who cannot or are unwilling to use the internet to access services; the agencies need to work with the Government Digital Service and others to address the problem of misleading copycat websites; the DVLA needs to do more to explain how it is required to share personal data with private parking companies and the safeguards that are in place to protect such data; the DVLA needs to adjust it's fees to ensure costs are covered and do more to explain it's calculations; and data sharing needs to be effective, if revenue collection, action on safety and work by enforcement agencies are to be effective, and new services need to be planned with data sharing in mind
HC 428 - Security on the Railway
Title | HC 428 - Security on the Railway PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee |
Publisher | The Stationery Office |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 2014-09-05 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 021507582X |
Crime on Britain's railways decreased year-on-year over the past decade. That trend shows the effectiveness of the specialist rail policing provided by the British Transport Police (BTP). The Committee were impressed by the BTP's commitment to tackling crime while minimising delays for the travelling public. Despite the welcome decline in overall crime, we identified areas where the BTP could improve its performance. The British Transport Police Authority (BTPA) is the body with responsibility for setting the BTP challenging but achievable targets to tackle crime on the railway. The BTPA must fulfil its remit and avoid any perception that it is too close to the people whom it should be holding to account. The Committee concluded that the BTP model of developing specialist policing skills and securing funding from transport providers might usefully be applied to other transport modes, such as aviation. Such an approach could minimise delays, maximise security and reduce the cost of policing to taxpayers. In the course of the inquiry, the Committee heard that vulnerable children and young people are often found in and around railway stations and were surprised to learn that the BTP currently has no targets in relation to child protection. The Department for Transport, the BTPA, the BTP and the charity sector should work together to tackle this emerging issue by examining the available data and reviewing current practice.
Too Soon to Scrap the Census - HC 1090
Title | Too Soon to Scrap the Census - HC 1090 PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee |
Publisher | The Stationery Office |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2014-04-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0215071670 |
At the start of this Parliament, the Minister for the Cabinet Office indicated the ten-yearly census should be axed and the 2011 census should be the last. But in this report the Public Administration Select Committee urges the government not to scrap the 2021 census. Good figures on the people in the country are of fundamental importance to the statistical system, policy makers and society more widely, and the ten-yearly census gives detailed information on small areas. This report follows the National Statistician's announcement in March 2014 that she recommends that Government keep the Census in 2021, but that it should be conducted largely online, and that the Government should make much greater use of the data which it already holds in order to improve the accuracy of population estimates. The Committee supports the recommendation from the National Statistician, but urges the Office for National Statistics to do much more to make the best use of the data which the Government already collects, for example through the Department for Work and Pensions, HM Revenue and Customs and the Department of Health. The Committee says that the Office for National Statistics' work on the future of the Census has, to date, been limited, and recommends that the Office for National Statistics now sets out a much more ambitious vision for the use of this data to provide rich and valuable population statistics.
House of Commons - Public Administration Select Committee (PASC): The Failure of the Cabinet Office to Respond to our Report on the Business Appointment Rules, Published July 2012 - HC 1156
Title | House of Commons - Public Administration Select Committee (PASC): The Failure of the Cabinet Office to Respond to our Report on the Business Appointment Rules, Published July 2012 - HC 1156 PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee |
Publisher | The Stationery Office |
Pages | 20 |
Release | 2014-03-27 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780215070517 |
There has been concern in the last few years that former Ministers and Crown Servants have inappropriately used knowledge they gained in Government to seek new employment in other sectors. Over two years ago the Committee launched an inquiry to examine the effectiveness of the Business Appointment Rules in ensuring propriety in the future employment of former Ministers and senior Crown servants; and to consider the potential of the Big Society agenda to increase traffic through the "revolving door" between the public sector and business and the voluntary sector. The report "The Business Appointment Rules" was published on 17 July 2012. Some twenty months later, the Government has not responded to the Report. The Committee has raised this matter both through correspondence with the Rt Hon Francis Maude, Minister for the Cabinet Office, and by way of Parliamentary Questions. The Committee views the Government failure to respond to a Select Committee Report as unacceptable behaviour and in this instance as obstructive and secretive, both showing a cavalier attitude in its responsibilities towards Parliament and thereby deliberately impeding a cross-party scrutiny of Government policy in this area.