PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Recruitment (12 September 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the Answer of 2 August 2024 to Question 1988, whether he made an assessment of the potential merits of holding an open competition for the appointment of the Director General for Digital Centre Design.

Asked by:
Andrew Griffith (Conservative)

Consideration was given to running an open recruitment competition for this role, however due to the temporary nature of the role and the need to progress work on the future design of the government Digital Centre at pace, initial use of an exception was favoured.

Answered by:
Feryal Clark (Labour)
10 October 2024