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Parliament and the Public Sector

The ‘Parliament series’ was one of the Emerging Issues Projects the IPS/School of Government has undertaken in cooperation with Chief Executives from across the public sector. The impetus for horizon-scanning discussions organised by the IPS arose initially from discussions amongst Chief Executives at a retreat at ‘Boom Rock’ in 2002 and continued as the Emerging Issues Project after 2005 under the chair of the State Services Commissioner, Dr Mark Prebble. Several projects have been completed under these auspices and work continues on others.

Most projects in the EIP follow the well-branded IPS process:
- background papers commissioned and presented;
- roundtable discussions with an invited and informed group;
- circulation to participants of (anonymised) notes of the discussions;
- and, where appropriate, the preparation of a final publication.

For the ‘Parliament Series’ the first three of these steps took place between the end of 2006 and March 2007. Discussion notes were circulated shortly thereafter. The final publication for this series should be completed late in 2007. Nicola White, Colin James and Dr Andrew Ladley were the conveyors.

Please click here to download a preliminary report on the project This summary outlines the main topics of the discussions and includes an overview from the Convener of the series, Colin James, of some of the ground covered.