The chancellor's department has asked the Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB) to review the relationship between judicial salaries and those of the senior civil service.
Ministers have identified limited access to the professions - such as law, medicine, the senior civil service, media, finance and the upper ranks of the Armed Forces - as a major obstacle.
The subsequent report, "Outsiders and Insiders", concluded that the senior civil service "should take appropriate measures to reduce its reliance on external recruitment, not least because outside appointees do not appear to perform better than career civil servants - despite being paid more".
More privatisation may help, as will a cut in the numbers of bureaucrats and a freeze on senior civil-service pay but the amounts are not huge.
Yet, at the same time, women represent a mere 6% of higher management in German business, 6% of top university professors, and less than 10% of senior civil-service jobs.
Senior civil-service jobs were advertised online in a bid to boost transparency but, because of a lack of suitable applicants, the government fell back on the familiar habit of appointing party loyalists.
The PM told a committee of senior MPs the civil service needed to be "fleeter of foot" and less hierarchical.
Muslims hold most of the senior positions in the civil service.
One reason for the investment shortfall may be that government lacks the ability to manage big investment projects, following sharp cutbacks in the senior ranks of the civil service in the mid-1990s.
If you want to see black success just look at who chairs the key spending committees in the House of Representatives, just look at the senior officers in the armed forces, just look at senior members of the Civil Service.
He is a senior visiting fellow at the Civil Service College in Singapore.
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The previous Labour government had attempted to reform the civil service compensation scheme, which can result in some senior civil servants being paid more than six times their annual salary.
The smaller civil service unions covering senior officials, managers, scientists and specialists - the FDA and Prospect - have signed an agreement but the quarter of a million strong PCS representing most civil servants has not.
The move to create a civil service was recommended by Belinda Crowe, a former UK senior civil servant, in the independent review of Sark's government.
When GOP political appointees take over, as they did in the months after Bill Clinton left office, they often find themselves saddled with individuals of a profoundly different ideological stripe who hold senior staff positions and who, under civil service rules, cannot be easily displaced.
Almost all have benefited from the tight bond that exists between the top ranks of France's civil service and the country's senior executives.
This will also be a huge blow to the civil service, which is already under pressure from senior figures like Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude.
This is because Alawites, a heterodox offshoot of Shia Islam, are disproportionately represented in the civil service, the armed forces (especially the senior ranks) and thuggish militias sponsored by the regime.
Mr Mudavadi senior had worked his way up through the ranks of the civil service during the colonial era, starting his career as a teacher and ending up in charge of education in western Kenya.
Iranian-allied Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is purging the Iraqi military and security services and the Iraqi civil service of pro-Western, anti- Iranian commanders and senior officials.
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