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Joe Hill
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Policy Director @re-state.bsky.social, Founder http://greaterlondon.co, Columnist in CityAM. ex Treasury. Views my own
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Joe Hill @jo3hill.bsky.social · 16h
Loved hosting this panel at Conservative Party Conference on remaking the State!
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Re:State @re-state.bsky.social · 17h
What would it take for the Conservatives to really reshape the State next time around?

Policy Director @jo3hill.bsky.social shares his three takeaways from our panel event at Conservative Party conference 👇

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Conservative Party conference: A Conservative vision to remake the State - Re:State
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Joe Hill @jo3hill.bsky.social · 7d
Fantastic discussion about the construction industry and sector support at Labour Party Conference! Loved chairing this one.
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Re:State @re-state.bsky.social · 7d
🏠 Business-as-usual won’t fix the housing crisis. Cross-sector collaboration, a stronger pipeline of skills, and better use of data are essential.

📝Researcher @seaneke.bsky.social reflects on the key insights from our private roundtable with Antonia Bance MP
at Labour Party Conference.
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Joe Hill @jo3hill.bsky.social · 7d
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Joe Hill @jo3hill.bsky.social · 9d
This afternoon I’m in conversation with Kanishka Narayan MP at Labour Party Conference on what AI means for the UK.

12:45 - 13:45

Holiday Inn Express second floor, Brittania Two room. Follow the signs for @re-state.bsky.social!
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Joe Hill @jo3hill.bsky.social · 11d
In Liverpool for Labour Conference today? Planning on doing anything else?

🗑️SCRAP YOUR PLANS

🎙️we are hosting Andy Burnham for a live episode of Meetings with Mayors podcast with our @stkaye.bsky.social

⏰1445 to 1530.
🔓Outside the secure zone.
✉️DM me for details
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Joe Hill @jo3hill.bsky.social · 14d
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Getting the machine learning: scaling AI in public services - Re:State
AI has the potential to drastically transform government for the better, increasing efficiency and cutting costs. Other governments and the private sector are already seeing the benefits from using AI...
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Joe Hill @jo3hill.bsky.social · 14d
Great to see the Government piloting AI coding assistants, which we @re-state.bsky.social recommended in our paper last year.

Satya Nadella estimates that 30% of Microsoft's code is written by AI, a huge efficiency boost. But until now, it was effective banned in government.
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Joe Hill @jo3hill.bsky.social · 14d
"The new needs friends"

Last week we launched our Leaders Network for senior civil servants. It's a real milestone in our work at @re-state.bsky.social to work with the next generation of leaders, and help them think outside the box about the future of Whitehall. I wrote about the launch here.
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Re:State @re-state.bsky.social · 15d
Whitehall can’t tackle 21st-century problems with 19th-century tools.

In this Re:Think, Policy Director, @jo3hill.bsky.social, reflects on the launch of our Leaders Network in partnership with Newton, and why fresh ideas matter for leadership.

Check out the blog👇

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Launching leaders - Re:State
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Joe Hill @jo3hill.bsky.social · 16d
Can't wait to host Kanishka Narayan for an 'in conversation event' next Tuesday at Labour Party Conference!

If you're in Liverpool, come along and hear us talk about AI and the future.
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Re:State @re-state.bsky.social · 16d
📢🚨 New Labour Party Conference Event Added 🚨📢

We’re delighted to announce a newly confirmed Labour Party Conference event: an in conversation with Kanishka Narayan MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.
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Joe Hill @jo3hill.bsky.social · 17d
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Making the grade: Prioritising performance in Whitehall - Re:State
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Joe Hill @jo3hill.bsky.social · 17d
A 50% increase in employees in HR in 20 years.

This trend explains a lot about how society has changed. Particularly in big organisations.

In our @re-state.bsky.socialpaper last year, we identified the same 50% increase in civil service HR, in just the years between 2016 and 2023.
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 20d
As Karl Popper said "It is impossible to communicate in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.“

If you think that I am minimizing the catastrophic situation we Europeans are all in, trust me, I am not.
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Joe Hill @jo3hill.bsky.social · 21d
These are just a few ideas, there are many more. State capacity is continually undermined by a broken regulatory system. If we can fix it, we can build a stronger state and a better economy. More from us @re-state.bsky.social on this soon - standby!
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Joe Hill @jo3hill.bsky.social · 21d
5. Giving regulatory policy a stronger platform.

DBT is underpowered to corral the rest of government, in the face of strong vested interests in other departments which push for more regulation in their areas. Moving the agenda to the Cabinet Office, or even HMT, could give it more firepower.
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Joe Hill @jo3hill.bsky.social · 21d
4. Encouraging new companies to enter regulated markets. The Government should go beyond the use of sandboxes like the FCA’s, and create the kind of “n+1 regulator” for new innovations which John Fingleton has argued for in the past.
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Joe Hill @jo3hill.bsky.social · 21d
3. Rebuilding regulatory capacity. A Regulators Bill in the second session would be the right vehicle to rationalise the landscape of regulators, like the independent review of water has already recommended with Ofwat.
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Joe Hill @jo3hill.bsky.social · 21d
2. Bringing in regulatory budgeting approaches, to manage the total impact of regulation on business.
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Joe Hill @jo3hill.bsky.social · 21d
To win, the Government needs fresh ideas:

1. Strengthening the role of the Regulatory Policy Committee and impact assessments. Too many impact assessments show significant net negative present value, but still get passed.
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Joe Hill @jo3hill.bsky.social · 21d
But they’ve said one thing, and done another. Instead of less, we’ve had more regulations, and more regulators, because of that ratchet effect.
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Joe Hill @jo3hill.bsky.social · 21d
The Government has a good Action Plan, and a target of cutting cost by 25 per cent. Admittedly they target is focused on the narrowest definition of regulatory costs possible, but it’s a good start.
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Joe Hill @jo3hill.bsky.social · 21d
But that’s not new. Plenty of governments have tried to reform regulation in the past. Most have recognised that there’s a ratchet effect that works in regulation - it’s easy to create more, and hard to get rid of old regulation. Over time, the trend only goes one way.
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Joe Hill @jo3hill.bsky.social · 21d
It’s at the heart of all the growth measures government are pursuing - industrial strategy, housing and energy. Reforming the way these sectors are regulated is key to making them much more dynamic, attracting investment, and getting spades in the ground on new projects.
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Joe Hill @jo3hill.bsky.social · 21d
‘The Law of Rule’

The growth this government promised hasn’t arrived. But there’s one thing they could do which wouldn’t cost them anything - regulatory reform.

I’ve written a long read about what they could do, and why it matters. 🧵

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The Law of Rule: the regulation theory of everything - Re:State
If you are looking for good news, you won’t find it in the British economy. Yesterday’s employment data release continues a familiar trend, with the number of payrolled employees falling, vacancies fa...
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Joe Hill @jo3hill.bsky.social · 22d
The hospital is a unique economic unit. Incredibly understudied, even in an NHS which has accidentally (and incorrectly) been plugging more and more resource into secondary care over the last two decades. Automation has huge potential.

Great new paper today from the team.
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Re:State @re-state.bsky.social · 22d
🚨New paper out today!🚨

There are countless avoidable inefficiencies in hospitals today - many of which could be automated overnight.

We explored what steps government, ICSs & trusts need to make in order to grasp the potential of these innovations.

Read here: re-state.co.uk/publications...
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Rosie Beacon @rosiebeacon.bsky.social · 22d
New paper out today on automation in hospitals!

Loved researching this - needless to say the efficiency gains of automating pharmacy are enormous yet embarrassingly rare!
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Re:State @re-state.bsky.social · 22d
🚨New paper out today!🚨

There are countless avoidable inefficiencies in hospitals today - many of which could be automated overnight.

We explored what steps government, ICSs & trusts need to make in order to grasp the potential of these innovations.

Read here: re-state.co.uk/publications...
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