03 May 2012
| by Matt Cartmell
The Government's under-fire health and social care watchdog has taken the unusual step of launching...The Care Quality Commission, which is funded through registration schemes but also government grant-in-aid, is seeking to hire public affairs support to lobby the Government.
The news ...
gathering information from political, governmental and 'other relevant audiences'.
The revelations about ...
22 May 2012
| by John Owens
The Government will be kicking off two roster searches in a hunt for 'the most innovative ideas...comms spend.
The Government Procurement Service will work alongside the governmental comms operation ...
will be awarded.
The meeting, named 'Agile government communications: ambitions for the future' and hosted by Dods, came after the COI was closed at the end of March.
During the meeting, senior government ...
17 May 2012
| by John Owens
The minister overseeing lobbying reform has hit back at suggestions the Government has 'undermined...Mark Harper defended his Government s record on handling lobbying scandals. Under questioning over how ...
bodge of it.
He did, however, pledge that the Government would p ublish a draft bill during this parliamentary session.
His words follow widespread industry criticism of the Government's initial ...
09 May 2012
| by Kate Magee
Jenny Grey, the Government's 'comms tsar', will chair this year's PRWeek Awards....Grey, whose full title is executive director for government communications in the Cabinet Office, was recently identified in PRWeek s Power Book as one of the top ten most powerful comms professionals ...
Oscars .
PRWeek editor-in-chief Danny Rogers said: Jenny has the biggest comms job in the Government ...
22 May 2012
| by Gemma Charles
The government is to make ad campaigns aimed at stimulating growth a key part of the first cross...Speaking at the Agile Government Communications Conference in Westminster on Monday (21 May), Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude and the executive director for government communications, Jenny Grey ...
of the government's growth strategy.
Other campaigns set for the coming year include activity to promote ...
31 May 2012
| by John Owens
The public believes that the media are coming down more harshly on central government but easing up...that media coverage of central government was negative crept up two per cent during the same period, to 60 ...
successfully distanced themselves from central government decisions.
Acknowledging that work still had ...
government cutbacks, led by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles, as being a possible reason behind ...
15 May 2012
| by John Owens
A leading figure in the post-COI government comms effort has vowed that the new set-up will be more...Executive director of government comms Jenny Grey spoke to PRWeek ahead of a key meeting next ...
of SMEs, which the Government sees more broadly as crucial to growth.
With the old system, one could ...
of the COI and come as the Government moves to group departments together into hubs that will present ...
24 May 2012
| by John Owens
The Government's top communicators have called on the PR industry to diversify its services...At a standing room-only conference on Monday, senior Government figures explained the fresh ...
to better incorporate digital, planning and measurement.
The wide-ranging plan will see the Government ...
wide range of skills in PR, advertising and marketing.
Executive director of government comms Jenny ...
17 May 2012
The Government is less popular than in 2010 and more people have a negative opinion...Positive sentiment towards the coalition Government has dropped to its lowest level for three ...
of the coalition Government in 2010, 36 per cent said either very or quite positive and 30 per cent said quite ...
positively about the Government, while those feeling negative jumped to 52 per cent.
In 2010, 21 per cent ...
10 May 2012
| by Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith
Thomas Cook chief Ian Ailles has knocked the Government's focus on promoting domestic tourism...the campaign because it made sense for us commercially", but that the Government should be supporting tourism ...
the VisitEngland campaign."
Ailles called on the Government to recognise the economic benefits that overseas ...
, according to recent ABTA research.
Criticising the Government's rises in Air Passenger Duty (APD), Ailles ...