The HoC Public Accounts Comm. has concluded the civil service lack both skills & capacity to property oversee infrastructure projects contributing both to the evident delays & budgeting problems.
Civil servants have become too reliant on outsourced expertise (consultants & the contractors) for evaluation, with the state no longer able to act as an 'intelligent client'.
The Tory attrition and politicisation of the civil service has (and is having) sigficant detrimental impact.
Effectively the development of 'learned helplessness' at institutional level. In the end it gives the #uk the honest but wholly incompetent #DidoHarding - arguably even more of a problem that the traditional corrupt grifters!
@ChrisMayLA6@TCMuffin reliance on consultants, often pricey but from favoured companies has been a problem for more than 14 years in the UK I am afraid to say.
Much longer than that...I was a PwC senior IT management consultant from 1989-1994 and I did a lot of puclic sector work at a fee of >£1,000 + expenses per day.
I met my wife, Caroline, in 1990 on a job at London Borough of Tower Hamlets implementing the Local Government Act 1988 (which extended CCT to blue-collar services, such as refuse collection and ground maintenance, and white-collar services such as public libraries and arts centre management).
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