No-one in the No 10 policy unit has met anyone at Peter Cruddas' request.
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The tone of the white paper has been softened following intervention by the prime minister's policy unit.
Mr Blair then handed over to Michael Barber from the Number 10 policy unit who talked about delivering government policy.
Mrs Clinton's team alone outnumbers Mr Blair's policy unit, while Cherie Blair gets by with two aides on a job-share.
Mr Moylan will instead take charge of a new aviation policy unit to try to attract more investment in the city.
Mr Blair wanted to co-ordinate his Policy Unit with his private office.
Hacker's solitary ally is the head of his policy unit, Claire Sutton.
He denuded Downing Street of capacity, ceded power to civil servants (who run Mr Cameron's policy unit) and limited the number of special advisers.
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The Downing Street Policy Unit was full of former McKinsey consultants.
The first is that Luton Airport was recently invited to Downing Street to brief the Prime Minister's policy unit on the issue of expansion.
Roughly the same age as David Cameron and Nick Clegg, Mr Miliband became an MP in 2001 after working as head of the Downing Street policy unit.
He raised the quantity and quality of Policy Unit staff (it now boasts a dozen high-flyers), and widened its remit to oversee existing policies and develop new ones.
He was head of then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Policy Unit between 1985 and 1990, and was one of the chief architects of the Conservative's privatisation and deregulation programme.
And why not, many will ask, after the extraordinary video of the Tory co-treasurer offering to sell access to the prime minister's private dinner table and his policy unit.
Much like Tony Blair's policy unit in Downing Street, the new Conservative unit will attempt to develop long-term policies in key areas such as the reform of public services.
All of which meant, after Labour lost the election, Mr Miliband, the former head of Tony Blair's policy unit, was in prime position to replace Mr Brown as party leader.
"The manufacturing sector continues to underperform the rest of the economy, reflecting its exposure to difficult overseas trading conditions and the weak euro, " said Ruth Lea, head of the IoD's policy unit.
Dr Stuart White, head of the Public Policy Unit at Oxford University, is an advocate of citizen's inheritance, moving the process of inheriting money away from families deciding who gets what, to redistribute wealth.
It said it wanted the names of Tory donors who have visited government property - including Downing Street and Chequers - and of those who have made submissions to the Downing Street policy unit, to be published.
It is not every day that an international consortium of concerned lipid scientists gets upset, but just such a group, rallied by Jack Winkler of the Nutrition Policy Unit at London Metropolitan University, is on the warpath.
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John Major, Mr Blair's Tory predecessor, had relied on a handful of civil servants to prepare his papers and run his diary, and a small Policy Unit to keep him in touch with policy developments in Whitehall.
That said, a follow-up study of 60 Brighton addicts by the Criminal Policy Research Unit at South Bank University found substantial reductions in both drug use and crime.
One of the most anticipated reforms is the division of the railways ministry as a policy and regulatory unit under the transport ministry.
Ben Caldecott, Head of Policy Exchange's Environment and Energy Unit, said simple, cheap strategies like providing more bins could easily be put into place.
The prime minister has announced a new unit to help modernise the way government policy is formulated and implemented.
Magnus-Stinson found that a prison policy preventing Lindh and the other Muslims in his unit from praying together daily when not locked in their cells violated a 1993 law banning the government from curtailing religious speech without showing a compelling interest.
Ministers are not bound to take their advice on presentation of policy, but they are tripping over themselves to use the unit's services.
Michael Scheuer, the former senior CIA agent in charge of the Bin Laden tracking unit, is a maverick in Washington's foreign policy establishment.
Lord Birt became a strategic adviser in Downing Street's Forward Strategy Unit last year and is especially examining long-term transport policy.
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