The Alternative Comprehensive Spending Review

As Gordon Brown launches the fifth Comprehensive Spending Review since New Labour came to power in 1997, we might ask ourselves why all the debate about priorities and policies has remained firmly under wraps in the Whitehall village. It was, after all, Brown himself who announced that the Comprehensive Spending Review would be carried out through "national debate" rather than the secretive process which has come to decide our national priorities. In this, the first 'alternative' spending review to be published through the Herbert Simon Institute at the University of Manchester, the editors aim to draw back the veil of secrecy and let the real debate on the long-term trends and challenges that will shape the next decade begin. Identifying the reforms and investments needed to meet long-term challenges across government departments, a team of distinguished academics examine the spending issues and constraints facing public services, the policy and delivery challenges across government and look at how public spending reforms have fared so far. A vital source for those wishing to make the spending review process more open, the Alternative Comprehensive Spending Review 2007 is essential reading for anyone interested in public administration and public policy.

ISBN 0719078075   Pages 212 ISBN13 9780719078071 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Manchester University Press   Weight (grammes) 590 Imprint Manchester University Press   Published in Manchester Format Paperback   Height (mm) 290 Publication date 01 Aug 2007   Width (mm) 211 Library of Congress HJ7764   Spine width (mm) 15 DEWEY 336.390941   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

		List of tables, figures and boxes
Sect. I		The context
1		Overview: a milestone for progress by Matt Baker		3
2		Public finances: the constraints by Robert Chote		7
3		Spending Reviews and Public Service Agreements - policy and practice by Colin Talbot		15
Sect. II		Departmental reviews
4		Department for Education and Skills by Alan Dyson		23
5		Department of Health by Kieran Walshe		35
6		Local Government by Carole Johnson		45
7		The Home Office by Stephen Brookes		54
8		Foreign and Commonwealth Office by David Steven		66
9		Department for International Development by Willy McCourt		78
10		Department of Trade and Industry by Francis Chittenden and Ray Oakey		87
11		Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs by Joe Ravetz		95
12		Department for Work and Pensions by Jay Wiggan		106
13		An effective centre for government - the future of the Cabinet Office and HM Treasury by Colin Talbot		117
Sect. III		Cross-cutting issues
13		Towards the next phase of employment policy by Jill Rubery		127
14		Sustainable Development Strategy by Joe Ravetz		138
15		Social enterprise by Rob Paton		154
16		Mind the gap: bridging the gender divide by Claire Annesley and Francesca Gains and Kirstein Rummery		160
17		eGovernment: terminology and scope by Peter Kawalek		169
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