Home Secretary questioned on civil service appointments
Nick Thomas-Symonds MP asked an urgent question on the appointment of senior civil service positions and the news that David Frostis to becomeNational Security Adviser.
- Nick Thomas-Symonds MP asked an urgent question on the appointment of senior civil service positions and the news that David Frostis to becomeNational Security Adviser.
- Last Friday, it was announced that the UK's most senior civil servant, Sir Mark Sedwill, would step down from his positions of Cabinet Secretary and National Security Adviser (NSA) in September.
- The General Secretary of the senior civil servants' union, the FDA, said that he had been undermined in a "cowardly" way, as reports of tensions emerged.
- He said that it was an appointment for the Prime Minister to decide, and that the First Civil Service Commissioner had agreed the NSArolecould be seen "as a political rather than necessarily civil service appointment", describing the position as akin to a "special envoy".