Weak leadership hinders public services reforms

摘要

Central government's own inadequacy in performing key corporate functions is hampering attempts to integrate and reform public services, spending watchdogs have reported. A study on civil service reform plan - one of four issued simultaneously on 20 September by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) -blames the Cabinet Office and the Treasury for not showing 'strong strategic leadership in their corporate roles as the strategy and finance departments of government respectively'. 'The Cabinet Office is a weak strategy department and the Treasury is a weak finance department,' the MPs stated. 'As a result, the centre does not display strong strategic leadership and does not co-ordinate government business effectively,' the report adds.