If you want to understand how ready - or not - the UK is for 'no deal', you should read this NAO report.
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It shows just how much work is happening inside Whitehall - v impressive against any normal standards - but...
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It shows just how much work is happening inside Whitehall - v impressive against any normal standards - but...
It also shows very clearly how nightmarish the politics, risk, complexity and timelines are. You can't deliver major projects with that toxic combination of problems
Defra is responsible for:
- 1 in 6 Brexit workstreams
- 1 in 8 statutory instruments
- 1 in 3 Brexit Bills
Defra is responsible for:
- 1 in 6 Brexit workstreams
- 1 in 8 statutory instruments
- 1 in 3 Brexit Bills
It also has a role at the border, working with devolved administrations,engaging wide variety of orgs incl NGOs, farmers, supermarkets, doing trade policy, devising ambitious new post-BRexit policy in agri/fish.
It's got 1300 new staff.
But it lost around 1 in 3 members of staff through cuts between 2010 and 2016
Those cuts were reversed in less than two years after referendum - but new hires don't replace experience.
But it lost around 1 in 3 members of staff through cuts between 2010 and 2016
Those cuts were reversed in less than two years after referendum - but new hires don't replace experience.
Lots of the 'deal or no deal' debate is about politics. But sooner or later the practicalities will become the politics and this NAO report shows clearly where things are at...
Read our @instituteforgov preparing Brexit paper if your interested in the wider story of secrecy, planning issues and toxic politics - instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publications/p…
