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About the civil service

The evolution of the United Kingdom Civil Service 1848-1997

A Paper Prepared for the International Institute of Administrative Sciences Quebec Conference July 1997

Michael Duggett
B.A. M.Phil, MITD, PhD
Principal Lecturer
Civil Service College London

(The paper expresses the personal opinions of the author and in no way should be taken to represent the views of the Civil Service College or the Cabinet Office)

1. Origins
2. Embedding professionalism
3. The administrative class
4. Defining the problem differently: Fulton
5. The first steps
6. Next steps
7. Four C’s: Citizen’s charter, Continuity and Change
8. Conclusions
9. Annex 1: Bibliography
10. Annex 2: Size of the British Civil Service since 1902