Nick Muddle

Helping UK gov spend better. Director @paretofrontiers.

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@GWRHelp I've cleared cookies and the cache and getting the same error.

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@GWRHelp Hi, your new authentication form on app and website is telling me to enter a valid email when I enter my valid email, can you fix the validation please.

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@BrewDog some sour lacto funkiness in this batch of Punk IPA, got two cans and it's in both :(

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@guardian Please change this misleading headline to reflect the story https://t.co/F5TxFwkhEn

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@serengetidave Hard work paid off and Daryl got the bag

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@freeagent No, all good now, seemed to come back after an hour or so, thank you!

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@freeagent looks like you're down, do you have an ETA for fix?

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public expenditure, including satisfaction of standards of regularity, propriety, value for money & feasibility. Each depts Accounting Officer (usually the Perm Sec) is accountable for meeting the standards, not ministers. Ministers can give a Direction to say "do it anyway". 2/2

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@RestIsPolitics On the recent Leading with Jonathan Powell @RoryStewartUK complained that when told to spend £40m his civil servants returned with an options appraisal. They were almost certainly required to do this by Managing Public Money, an HMT paper setting out rules for 1/2

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@Samfr In higher soil deposition areas we must be close to Mondeo man being correct either way.

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@Samfr I feel the same when I see top line targets that are riddled with perverse incentives to achieve them.

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@FraserSouthey @JohnRentoul I think the point is that Starmer hasn't gotten further than "set goals" yet.

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@tombennett71 My children have never heard the ending.

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@AlexGAThomas @matt_hfoster Believe @LucyMPowell told @bbcnickrobinson on @BBCr4today that both parties would comply with the ACOBA recommendations.

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@racfoundation @transportgovuk "The
Technology Scenario does not adjust for potential capacity improvements from AVs
being able to communicate with each other" This is quite a significant omission if we're taking the headline at face value!

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@Towler @Samfr https://t.co/8hP97AQDXB

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@DC_PCC Is the assessment methodology available? Would be really interesting to see how this could be used to prioritise road safety investments for national programmes.

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All star cast giving some perspective on public spending. @DavidGauke proposing new public body to do the same for ministers and to help avoid short-termism.
https://t.co/oOliVMhLRJ

[Thomas Pope @tompope0]

I've been looking at the govt's spending plans, and what we've learned today.

Overall what was announced was not as tight as some were expecting, but it still points to a difficult picture overall.

Short thread (which became a nerdy GDP deflator thread as I wrote it). 1/11

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@SophieEMetcalfe @instituteforgov Should have known there would already be an IfG report for that! Thanks