{"id":48883,"date":"2014-10-17T12:01:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T12:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=b9f6edb283d85754047153c3e778a395"},"modified":"2014-10-17T12:01:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T12:01:03","slug":"statement-to-parliament-osmotherly-rules-statement-on-updated-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=48883","title":{"rendered":"Statement to Parliament: Osmotherly Rules: statement on updated guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>On 2nd October 2014 the Prime Minister announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/chief-executive-for-civil-service-appointed\">John Manzoni had been appointed to the new position of Chief Executive of the Civil Service<\/a>. Details of that announcement can be found on GOV.UK.<\/p>\n<p>The government has also published the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/civil-service-reform-plan-progress-report\">progress report on civil service reform<\/a>. This report can also be found on GOV.UK . <\/p>\n<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/civil-service-reform-plan\">Civil Service Reform Plan<\/a> committed to reviewing the Osmotherly Rules \u2013 the guidance to departments governing the nature of ministers\u2019 and civil servants\u2019 interactions with Select Committees. Following consultation with the Liaison Committee I will today publish <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/departmental-evidence-and-response-to-select-committees-guidance\">updated guidance on GOV.UK<\/a>. This restates the primacy of the principle of ministerial accountability but confirms that the Senior Responsible Owners (<abbr title=\"Senior Responsible Owners\">SROs<\/abbr>) of the government\u2019s major projects (as defined by the Major Project Authority\u2019s Portfolio) will now be directly accountable to Parliament for the implementation of their project. <\/p>\n<p>We also confirm that former Accounting Officers can be called to give evidence about their previous responsibilities within a reasonable time period. We will publish a list of <abbr title=\"Senior Responsible Owners\">SROs<\/abbr> in due course and update it periodically. <\/p>\n<p>The updated guidance is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/departmental-evidence-and-response-to-select-committees-guidance\">Departmental evidence and response to select committees: guidance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Maude made a written statement on the Osmotherly Rules: guidance for ministers and civil servants on working with Select Committees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}