Reports

Main reports

  • Creating a lean heart of government, 12 pages — here

  • Summary, 4 pages — here

  • Effective Management, 11 pages — here

  • Effective Decentralisation, 15 pages — here

  • Objections to these proposals, 5 pages - here

EGF Supporting Research

Effective Management

  • The Library of Government Failure, 22 pages — here

  • Solving the Prison Crisis, 12 pages — here

  • The basic principles of management, 5 pages – here

  • The £100bn productivity opportunity, 4 pages – here

  • The management experience of the first Starmer Cabinet, 3 pages — here

  • 17 attempts to reform the UK system of government since 1968, 1 page — here

  • 25 attempts to reform the NHS since 1990, 3 pages — here

  • Civil service performance review, 3 pages — here

Effective Decentralisation

  • A comparison of the UK system of government with 10 peer countries, 31 pages – here

  • Individual country reports – here

  • Poll of voters attitude to decentralisation, 3 pages - here‍ ‍

Both reports

  • Public services, poor quality and expensive, 2 pages - here

  • Challenges facing the UK, 1 page - here

  • Voters’ attitudes to UK government, 3 pages - here

  • Voters’ attitudes towards public services, 2 pages - here

  • UK government departments are conglomerates within a conglomerate, 1 page - here

Supporting academic research commissioned by EGF

  • Universal Credit and lessons for government delivery, 8 pages - here

  • The Centre and the Departments: redesigning the Heart of British Government, 12 pages - here

  • The Role of HM Treasury: fiscal guardian or delivery obstacle?, 10 pages - here

  • Pay, Promotion and Performance Management, 8 pages - here