Abstract
The Next Steps programme has changed the face of British central government. From Mrs Thatcher’s announcement in February 1988 to the publication of the Continuity and Change White Paper in July 1994, 97 agencies were set up. Together with the 31 executive units of Customs and Excise and the 33 executive offices of the Inland Revenue, both of which operate on Next Steps lines, more than 340,000 (64 per cent) of civil servants were working in an agency of one kind or another by July 1994. (Cm 2627, 1994) In 1993 16 new agencies were launched, including the Prison Service (the third largest) and the Child Support Agency, set up under the Child Support Act 1991—the first unit to be set up from the outset as an agency. (OPSS, 1993,6)
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Giddings, P. (1995). Next Steps to Where?. In: Giddings, P. (eds) Parliamentary Accountability. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13682-7_12
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