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The central question - When it comes to New Labour's relationship with local government, ambivalence is the name of the game. The latest white paper highlights the push me-pull you...
Travers, Tony - In: Public finance : the business monthly of the public sector (2002), pp. 22-24
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Letters - Time to listen to Tony Travers; headline rage; when is a service contract a partnership?
Travers, Tony - In: Public finance : the business monthly of the public sector (2001), pp. 17
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005891293
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Reach for the stars - If at first you don't succeed... No one could accuse the British government of wavering enthusiasm over performance measures. Initiative continues to be piled...
Travers, Tony - In: Public finance : the business monthly of the public sector (2001), pp. 20-23
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005891401
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Five years to deliver - Tony Blair has been given his second chance to transform public services. He will now have to face the reality that it is not possible to have German-scale...
Travers, Tony - In: Public finance : the business monthly of the public sector (2001), pp. 20-23
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005892710
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Comment: Crossed lines - The real problem with large-scale government projects from the East Coast Mainline to London Underground is not private finance but that the government dep...
Travers, Tony - In: Public finance : the business monthly of the public sector (2001), pp. 17
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005893748
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Where now for the watchdogs? - Chris Woodhead's impending departure has brought the nature of inspection back into public focus. Was Woodhead's confrontational style what was neede...
Travers, Tony - In: Public finance : the business monthly of the public sector (2000), pp. 20-23
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005894621
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Perils of too much revision - Another government, another attempt to reform the vast and complicated system of local government funding. This one started off ambitiously but ended...
Travers, Tony - In: Public finance : the business monthly of the public sector (2000), pp. 20-23
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005895037
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Should the inspector be a bruiser? - Ofsted's abrasive Chris Woodhead has failed to set the style for inspectorates as a whole. The Audit Commission and the National Audit Office t...
Travers, Tony - In: Public finance : the business monthly of the public sector (1999), pp. 26-29
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005897597
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Why Blair's crusade is mired - The public sector has been branded as part of the forces of conservatism. Alongside the laudable sense of vocation, is there indeed a culture of iner...
Travers, Tony - In: Public finance : the business monthly of the public sector (1999), pp. 16-18
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005897643
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Living on the edge - The rundown state of the rail system typifies how many everyday public services are now routinely overstretched and on the brink of calamity. Ironically, the e...
Travers, Tony - In: Public finance : the business monthly of the public sector (1999), pp. 18-19
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005897816