How much attention should we give to consultation guidance? In the ideal world, consultation happens when those about to take decisions or adopt policies recognise the value of listening to others’ views before proceeding. In the real world, consultation often arises because a body of superior authority has ruled that it is necessary. Sometimes it […]
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Lockdown has been a busy period for us ensuring that consultors still have the tools they need to properly engage with their stakeholders. From the early days of the pandemic where we issued our covid guidance and opened our covid communications wiki, run by our associates, through the attempts to reopen up and the return
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One year ago this week, (23rd March) the UK went into lockdown for the first time due to coronavirus. We still remember our last full team meeting in the office that afternoon, all coming together with some sense of slight incredulity and ripples of that nervous laughter that always comes when stepping into the unknown.
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With legislatures all over the UK going into recess, some to anticipate their elections in May, and some just for a well-deserved Easter break, this will be the last WIP for at least a couple of weeks. Just because it’s the end of term, it does not mean they get away with watching films and
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There have been those who have feared that the eagerly-awaited Independent Review of Administrative law (the Faulks Review) would recommend the end of Judicial Review as we know it. After all, the 2019 Conservative Manifesto pledge was to “ensure that Judicial Review is available to protect the rights of the individual against an overbearing state,
We’ve had a couple of Westminster-heavy weeks recently, so as there was little of immediate concern in the Commons or the Lords (except the lack of consultation on the proposed new protest-control powers, which we wrote about here and are investigating further), let’s take a tour of the devolved administrations this time. Northern Ireland The
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A couple of weeks ago we wrote about a debate in Parliament over vaccine certification, in which we highlighted the lack of detail over the Government’s proposed review. Our speculation was that it may well turn out to be less of a consultation, and more an internal review of the evidence. We also raised the
Vaccine passports – Is the ‘call for evidence’ good enough? Read More »
This week has seen the introduction of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, the Government’s flagship effort to tackle crime through harsher sentences, giving the police new powers and increasing restrictions on public protest. A key plank of the Government’s agenda, the Bill takes an aggressive approach to justice to “empower the police and
On the lighter side Somewhere in the back-catalogue of Yes Minister episodes I remember a scene where the incandescent Permanent Secretary, Sir Humphry Appleby, storms into the Minister’s office, red-faced and waving a piece of paper demanding to know what on earth is going on? I also recall the equally fictional Malcolm Tucker of The
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With budget season well underway there has been much debate across the UK as to spending plans. It’s all very important and very interesting, but it’s easy for us non-economists to get burnt out on trying to grapple with the numbers- so what else has been going on across the UK political sphere? Westminster There
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