whitehall, civil service challenges
Committee examines how Whitehall identifies future challenges facing UK
9 December 2014
The Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) holds its second public oral evidence session on its inquiry Whitehall: capacity to address future challenges on Tuesday 9 December at 9.30am. The inquiry considers the Government’s capacity to anticipate, analyse, assess and respond to the most significant challenges facing the UK in the next decade or so.
- Parliament TV: Whitehall: capacity to address future challenges
- Inquiry: Whitehall: capacity to address future challenges
- Public Administration Select Committee
Witnesses
Tuesday 9 December, the Wilson room, Portcullis House
9:30am
- Jon Day CBE, Chairman, Joint Intelligence Committee, Cabinet Office
- Rear Admiral John Kingwell, Director, Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre, Ministry of Defence
- Dr Campbell McCafferty OBE, Director, Civil Contingencies Secretariat, Cabinet Office
- Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health
The evidence session examines
- how Whitehall identifies the most important challenges facing the UK in the next 20 years
- the machinery of Government’s preparedness to meet these challenges;
- the barriers to anticipating and effectively planning for future challenges; and
- ways of overcoming these barriers