Efficiency and Reform – The Next Chapter

Five days after the last Autumn Statement before the election, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General Francis Maude visits the RSA to expand on the innovative approaches being applied to the design and delivery of modern public services.

Read the original script from Francis Maude's speech

Four years after the establishment of the Government's Efficiency and Reform Group, two months after the appointment of the first Chief Executive of the Civil Service, and five days after the last Autumn Statement before the election, Francis Maude, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, will reflect on the progress made on public service reform in this parliament, and the plans to increase the pace and scale of change in the next.

Focusing in particular on the role of digital and structural change, Francis Maude will expand on the innovative approaches being applied to the design of modern public services and the organisations that provide them, including the shift to truly digital services and the rise of mutuals and joint ventures. And in assessing the work done to date to lay the foundations of future reform, Francis Maude will consider the key challenges that must be overcome in order to go further, faster.

Speaker: Rt Hon Francis Maude MP, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General
Chair: Matthew Taylor, chief executive, RSA