Cabinet Secretary Simon Case confirmed he was looking into the Scottish government’s spending on independence. Speaking to the House of Lords Constitution Committee on Tuesday, Simon Case said that he and his colleagues were “looking at some of these specifics” around taxpayers’ money being spent on Scotland’s independence strategy. The question about funding for the…

Calling the civil service a “blob” is insulting and totally unacceptable, the UK’s most senior civil servant has argued. Ministers who use such “dehumanising” language to characterise the civil service demonstrate “self-defeating cowardice,” cabinet secretary Simon Case told a cross-party group of MPs. He attributed the worsening relations between the public sector staff and ministers…

Almost every executive in the federal government—98 percent—received bonuses last year totalling just under $200 million, according to Canadian treasury data. That brings the total federal bonuses to more than half-a-billion during the pandemic years, says the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CFT). “Canadians are worried about missing a meal, but bureaucrats aren’t even worried about missing…

Hong Kong’s civil service resignations have reached a scale not seen since the city’s handover to China in 1997. The city’s Civil Service Bureau (CSB) recently disclosed that 10,487 civil service left their jobs in the year 2021-2022, of which, 3,743, resigned—double last year’s number, according to the Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP). Other reasons…

The British government intends to cut up to 91,000 civil service jobs—almost a fifth of the current total—within three years, the UK’s top civil servant has said. In a letter to civil servants, Cabinet Secretary Simon Case said the government aims to return to 2016 staffing levels, as the number of civil servants has grown…