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henrymidgley.bsky.social
Ex NAO now at Durham University interested in public sector financial accountability and other related things! Author Holding Government to Account: Democracy and the National Audit Office
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Well worth a catchup on these- my talk was on the NAO's history and in the same session, Kirsty Innes (Labour Together) spoke interestingly on digital ID. The discussion after both talks was very high quality too. All the talks Gavin mentions are worth listening to!

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

I have just published a new piece with Thomas Ahrens and Laurence Ferry about the NAO and the digitalisation of public sector audit. Lots of claims have been made about how digital technology could rapidly revolutionise public sector audit and reinvent democracy.

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Really interesting piece in the Guardian about the post office- its not surprising that questions are being asked of the auditors in the post office scandal-its inevitable that questions about the audit industry should come from this www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

This is an undeniably stupid policy which will have longterm effects- we may not be able to access ebooks in their current format in fifty years time for example. There is a real risk that the dash to digital leaves us with less knowledge of the 2020s than we have of the 1920s!

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Kind comments here about a talk I gave at Transform Government about the NAO- the book the talked is based on is available here www.routledge.com/Holding-Gove...

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

This is a great blog from Ben and he asks really important questions but the report he is criticising is poor. Its really poor that at no point do the Committee mention the Treasury or Treasury ministers (excluding the PM). The Treasury though is a key constitutional department.

submitted 65 days ago • 2 comments

If true, this looks a major scandal. But it also raises a lot of questions. From my world, why did the audit of the accounts for 2022-3 (which were signed off) not pick this up? or the audit of the accounts in 2023-4 which have not yet been published? x.com/HarryYorke1/...

submitted 74 days ago • 2 comments

Hey everyone. We'd really appreciate some shares of this to promote our 4th event. 💥💥 26th of March at the MoJ and online. 💥💥 Henry Midgley, Durham University, on Holding Government to Account and ​Kirsty Innes, Labour Together, on Digital ID. Register here! lu.ma/h0ci1zdd

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

This is a fantastic piece- we don't think about covid and we don't think about it enough. This is a pity especially when it comes to government. Covid was two things- a medical event and an emergency. I'm not qualified to write about the first but on the latter (1)

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

This is a really interesting piece which draws on the book that I, @aaileenm21.bsky.social and Laurence Ferry published in December. It looks at the pressure to make government more efficient- something we are seeing all over the world at the moment- but most famously in the US with Musk and DOGE

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

I just noticed this announcement from my old colleagues at PACAC. ACOBA is a really important organisation in fighting corruption in the UK and we really need it to be effectively led. Appointing an interim chair is disappointing. x.com/CommonsPACAC...

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

I am delighted to say that I have just been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society!

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

This piece by @iandunt.bsky.social on the Government's approach to EU law is very good. Beyond the EU point where I'm less expert, the points about both Parliament and administration are absolutely correct. iandunt.substack.com/p/the-hidden...

submitted 111 days ago • 1 comment

This is a fantastic post by @bymyong.bsky.social- well worth reading connecting a very real question at the moment- who is responsible for renewing Westminster to a very abstract and important constitutional principle- who or what is Parliament. Its well worth a read!

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