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20-670: The Nature Conservancy Council ( NCC ) was a United Kingdom government agency responsible for designating and managing National Nature Reserves and other nature conservation areas in Great Britain between 1973 and 1991 (it did not cover Northern Ireland ). The NCC was established by the Nature Conservancy Council Act 1973 and replaced the Nature Conservancy , established by Royal Charter in 1949. NCC's duties included: Robert Edward Boote

40-410: A contract to Capita Translation and Interpreting. Figures released to The Guardian in 2016 show that over 2,600 court cases were adjourned because of a failure to provide an adequate interpreter in the previous five years. From 31 October 2016 these services have been delivered under four separate lots through the following providers: Most translation into Welsh and Welsh-English interpretation

60-456: Is "a convenient and secure way of making or responding to a money claim on the Internet". The claim must be made by a single claimant against at most two people or organisations, and is normally for a fixed amount. You can make a money claim if you think a person or organisation owes you money and will not pay you back. You'll have to pay a fee [5–10% of claim]. Before making a claim, contact

80-623: Is Senior Presiding Judge. The Chief Executive is responsible for the day-to-day operations and administration of the agency, and is the Accounting Officer for the agency. The Lord Chancellor is required by section 1 of the Courts Act 2003 and section 39 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 to ensure there is an efficient and effective system to support the carrying on of the business of courts and tribunals, and it

100-716: Is a part of a government department that is treated as managerially and budgetarily separate, to carry out some part of the executive functions of the United Kingdom government , Scottish Government , Welsh Government or Northern Ireland Executive . Executive agencies are "machinery of government" devices distinct both from non-ministerial government departments and non-departmental public bodies (or " quangos "), each of which enjoy legal and constitutional separation from ministerial control. The model has been applied in several other countries. Agencies include well-known organisations such as His Majesty's Prison Service and

120-754: Is responsible for the administration of the courts of England and Wales , the Probate Service and tribunals in England and Wales and non-devolved tribunals in Scotland and Northern Ireland . It works from about 600 locations across the United Kingdom. The organisation's Framework Document says its aim is "to run an efficient and effective courts and tribunals system, which enables the rule of law to be upheld and provides access to justice for all." The courts over which it has responsibility are

140-535: Is to the Lord Chancellor that the agency is accountable, and the Lord Chancellor is in turn responsible for accounting for its operations to Parliament. HMCTS is an executive agency, in contrast with the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service which is a non-ministerial government department . However, it is unique in being such an agency and having constitutional accountability to judges as well as

160-883: The Court of Appeal , the High Court , the Crown Court , the magistrates' courts , and the county courts . The agency is responsible for the administration of all chambers of the First-tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal , together with the employment tribunals and certain other tribunals which the Tribunals Service was responsible for serving, such as the Special Immigration Appeals Commission and Proscribed Organisations Appeal Commission . The Supreme Court of

180-629: The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency . The annual budget for each agency, allocated by HM Treasury , ranges from a few million pounds for the smallest agencies to £700m for the Court Service . Virtually all government departments have at least one agency. The initial success or otherwise of executive agencies was examined in the Sir Angus Fraser's Fraser Report of 1991. Its main goal was to identify what good practices had emerged from

200-594: The Lord Chancellor. The framework document says that the agency is accountable to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales and the Senior President of Tribunals . This provides a unique partnership between all three in relation to the effective governance, financing and operation of His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service. For example, where the Board cannot reach agreement, its Chair will refer

220-581: The United Kingdom is not administered by HMCTS, as it is a UK-wide court, as opposed to an English and Welsh one. Its administration is under a Chief Executive who is appointed by the President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom . The service remains operationally independent, and the responsibility for overseeing the leadership and direction of the agency rests with its Board, three of whose members are judicial officeholders and one of whom

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240-415: The United Kingdom. By 1997, 76% of civil servants were employed by an agency. The new Labour government in its first such report – the 1998 Next Steps Report – endorsed the model introduced by its predecessor. A later review (in 2002, linked below) made two central conclusions (their emphasis): " The agency model has been a success . Since 1988 agencies have transformed the landscape of government and

260-711: The United States, the Clinton administration imported the model under the name "performance-based organizations." In Canada, executive agencies were adopted on a limited basis under the name special operating agencies . One example is the Translation Bureau under Public Services and Procurement Canada . Executive agencies were also established in Australia, Jamaica, Japan and Tanzania. His Majesty%27s Courts and Tribunals Service The agency

280-684: The former director of Nature Conservancy, having worked on revising its organisation was appointed by the Secretary of State for the Environment as the first Director General of the new NCC. He held this post until retiring in 1980 when Richard Charles Steele became Director General The organisation was divided into the three countries, each of which was divided in turn into regions covering several counties . Specialist groups dealt with nationwide issues, such as geology, cartography , grasslands , woodlands , birds, other taxonomic groups etc. There

300-541: The issue in question to the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice for a decision. Any amendment of the framework document must be agreed between all parties, and laid before Parliament. Furthermore, the Lord Chief Justice (and the Senior President) is entitled to terminate the partnership if either concludes that it is no longer compatible with his constitutional position or the independence of

320-548: The judiciary. By doing so, a report will be presented before both Houses of Parliament of that fact, and the governance of HMCTS will revert to a conventional agency model reporting directly to the Lord Chancellor unless and until a new model is agreed between the Lord Chancellor and Lord Chief Justice or a different legislative framework is put in place. Money Claim Online ( MCOL ) is a UK government Internet-based service by His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service for claimants and defendants in England and Wales. It states that it

340-407: The new model and spread them to other agencies and departments. The report also recommended further powers be devolved from ministers to chief executives. A series of reports and white papers examining governmental delivery were published throughout the 1990s, under both Conservative and Labour governments. During these the agency model became the standard model for delivering public services in

360-473: The person or organisation to try to resolve the issue by discussion or mediation. Your claim, including your name and address, will be sent to the person you say owes you money. They’ll get a chance to respond to your claim. Civil Procedure Rule Practice Direction 7E describes the Money Claim Service in more detail. The service privatised their language interpretation service in 2011, giving

380-421: The responsive and effectiveness of services delivered by Government." Some agencies have, however, become disconnected from their departments ... The gulf between policy and delivery is considered by most to have widened." The latter point is usually made more forcefully by critics of the government, describing agencies as "unaccountable quangos ". Several other countries have an executive agency model. In

400-1211: Was a national headquarters, at first in Belgrave Square in London, but later in Peterborough . In 1991, following the passage of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and the Natural Heritage (Scotland) Act 1991 , the Nature Conservancy Council was divided into three: United Kingdom government agency King Charles III [REDACTED] William, Prince of Wales [REDACTED] Charles III ( King-in-Council ) [REDACTED] Starmer ministry ( L ) Keir Starmer ( L ) Angela Rayner ( L ) ( King-in-Parliament ) [REDACTED] Charles III [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] The Lord Reed The Lord Hodge Andrew Bailey Monetary Policy Committee An executive agency

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