{"id":22317,"date":"2014-01-09T09:24:45","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T14:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=22317"},"modified":"2014-01-09T09:24:45","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T14:24:45","slug":"qotd-the-civil-service-delaying-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/01\/09\/qotd-the-civil-service-delaying-process\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The civil service delaying process"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Any unwelcome initiative from a minister can be delayed until after the next election by the Civil Service 12-stage delaying process:<\/p>\n<p>1. Informal discussions<br \/>\n2. Draft proposal<br \/>\n3. Preliminary study<br \/>\n4. Discussion document<br \/>\n5. In-depth study<br \/>\n6. Revised proposal<br \/>\n7. Policy statement<br \/>\n8. Strategy proposal<br \/>\n9. Discussion of strategy<br \/>\n10. Implementation plan circulated<br \/>\n11. Revised implementation plans<br \/>\n12. Cabinet agreement<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Lynn, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathanlynn.com\/tv\/yes_minister_series\/yes_minister_episode_quotes.htm\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Yes Minister Series: Quotes from the dialogue&#8221;, <em>JonathanLynn.com<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any unwelcome initiative from a minister can be delayed until after the next election by the Civil Service 12-stage delaying process: 1. Informal discussions 2. Draft proposal 3. Preliminary study 4. Discussion document 5. In-depth study 6. Revised proposal 7. Policy statement 8. Strategy proposal 9. Discussion of strategy 10. Implementation plan circulated 11. Revised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,84,57,41],"tags":[509,458,463,101],"class_list":["post-22317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-government","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-civilservice","tag-parliament","tag-parody","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5NX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22318,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22317\/revisions\/22318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}