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Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 4 September 2024

Debate

Civil Service: Recruitment

Contribution

My Lords, does the Minister agree with the statements that the noble Lord, Lord Maude, and the noble Baroness, Lady Finn, made on a number of occasions during the coalition Government that the Civil Service benefits from the recruitment of outside experts to senior roles? I declare an interest: I happen to have worked with one of the two people recently recruited from a short period of time in Labour Together and I never had any impression when working with her of any partisanship—she was extremely professional. Does she further agree with what Henry Newman, formerly a Conservative special adviser, wrote in TheWhitehallProject two weeks ago: “There is nothing inherently wrong with appointing either individual, but it should have been done with transparency and through clear procedures”?

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