Better Government Initiative was established in 2007 as a response to growing concern about the poor quality of formation and implementation of government policies. It is a non-party group made up primarily of former public servants.

It has worked with the representatives of all three main UK

United Kingdom

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 political parties

Political party

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 in developing proposals for improving the operations of government

Government

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 and enhancing the accountability of the executive to Parliament

Parliament

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. In January 2010 it published a series of recommendations for reform in the report, "Good Government: Reforming Parliament and the Executive." Its recommendations are concerned with the processes and procedures for developing and implementing government legislation

Legislation

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and other policies, not with the political merits of proposals themselves.