The bureaucrats who almost fell under a bus: A reassertion of ministerial responsibility?

Political Quarterly

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 177-183

  Polidano, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0034165115     PISSN: 00323179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-923X.00292     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. 1 John Portelli, 'Iċ-Ċivil: Ordni Trappista?' ['The Civil Service: A Trappist Order?'], manuscript, 1992.
2. 2 Charles Polidano, 'The Bureaucrat Who Fell Under a Bus: Ministerial Responsibility, Executive Agencies and the Derek Lewis Affair in Britain', Governance, 1999, pp. 201-29 (and additional references therein).
3. 3 Anthony Barker, 'Political Responsibility for UK Prison Security - Ministers Escape Again', Public Administration, 1998, p. 21.
4. 4 Andrew Gray and Bill Jenkins, 'Public Administration and Government 1995-96', Parliamentary Affairs, 1997, p. 192.
5. 5 A month previously, on 19 June 1998, the Head of Lifer Review had informed me that publication of the inquiry's main findings would 'probably be done through another parliamentary answer'.
6. 6 House of Commons Debates, 22 July 1998, written answers col. 548.
7. 7 For further details see Charles Polidano, 'An Exocet in a Red Box: Parliamentary Accountability in the Sandline Affair', Public Administration, forthcoming.
8. 8 House of Commons Debates, 27 July 1998, col. 20.
9. 9 Foreign Affairs Committee, 'Sierra Leone: Minutes of Evidence', HC 116-i, Session 1998-99, q. 2010.
10. 10 House of Commons Debates, 19 May 1997, cols 399, 406-7.
11. 11 House of Commons Debates, 8 July 1998, col. 1073.