Ministers are set to implement “radical” reforms to the civil service, focusing on improved efficiency and performance. Under new proposals, under-performing staff could leave voluntarily, and senior officials' pay will be linked to performance. Pat McFadden stressed the need for better value for money and greater freedom for civil servants. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00The civil service has grown an awful lot in recent years, an extra 130,000 people.
00:05I think it's really important that we get good value for money, but it's also important that
00:11we use the best of new technology, we allow people to take more risk.
00:15So we want a performance framework that really rewards excellent performance,
00:20and where it doesn't, we can have some voluntary exit and some mutually agreed exit.
00:25This would be completely normal in any other big organisation.
00:29Well, the Conservatives hired an extra 130,000 people, and you'd have to ask them
00:35what was the idea behind that. The state is doing more. After Brexit, for example,
00:41we repatriated some functions from the European Union. But even after that,
00:48recruitment has grown an awful lot in recent years.
00:51I think it's really important that we allow the brilliant people in the civil service
00:55to do their jobs with a bit more freedom, a bit less checking of five or six different
01:01layers of permissions, and we bring together what has been quite a rarefied policy world
01:08with the frontline of delivery of outcomes, and bring those together a bit more than we
01:13have in the past. So I think this will make working for the civil service better in the future.