Appendix 3: Letter to Chair from Rt Hon
Frances Maude MP, Minister for the Cabinet Office, 11 November
2010
Pre-appointment Hearing: Dual Role Appointment
of First Civil Service Commissioner and Commissioner for Public
Appointments
As you will know, we have recently undertaken an
open recruitment exercise to appoint a single postholder to the
dual role of First Civil Service Commissioner and Commissioner
for Public Appointments in succession to Dame Janet Pareskeva
and Dame Janet Gaymer.
Following an open recruitment exercise, I am pleased
to inform you that Sir David Normington, currently Permanent Secretary
at the Home Office, is the Government's preferred candidate for
this dual role. I would now like to formally invite you to hold
a pre-appointment hearing to take evidence from the preferred
candidate. I understand that next Tuesday, 16 November has been
provisionally scheduled for the hearing. My officials are liaising
with yours to provide the necessary background for the Commission's
evidence session.
The Prime Minister will carefully consider the Committee's
report on the hearing before deciding whether or not to proceed
with the appointment.
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