{"id":68501,"date":"2016-03-11T12:21:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T12:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=95135442e78dbe7de366817b2966e6dd"},"modified":"2016-07-07T15:24:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T15:24:15","slug":"government-response-government-publishes-grimstone-report-on-public-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=68501","title":{"rendered":"Government response: CSPL statement on PACAC\u2019s report on public appointment process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated:<\/em> Response to latest developments<\/p>\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>We welcome the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee\u2019s <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm201617\/cmselect\/cmpubadm\/495\/49502.htm\">report<\/a> and their recognition of the continued relevance of the Nolan principles to public confidence in these appointments. Like the Committee, we welcome the Government\u2019s greater emphasis on diversity and transparency but believe it is vitally important that there is sufficient independent scrutiny to safeguard the propriety of the process and provide public assurance that appointments are not made on the basis of personal or political patronage. We will take a close interest in the government\u2019s new Code and its implementation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Committee on Standards in Public Life welcomes PACAC report into the public appointments process<\/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\/68501"}],"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=68501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72098,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68501\/revisions\/72098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}