ABSTRACT
The government’s 2007 Green Paper, The Governance of Britain, envisaged legislation ‘enshrining the core values and principles of the Civil Service’. The Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 places the Civil Service on a statutory basis for the first time. Section 2 provides for the establishment of the Civil Service Commission with functions relating to the appointment of Civil Servants. The management of the Civil Service remains with the Minister for the Civil Service (usually the Prime Minister), with the exception of the Diplomatic Service which remains under the control of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. It also provides for a Code for Special Advisers (on whom see further Chapter 9), defines their role and provides an overall limit on the number of Special Advisers to be made by Order.
