ACOBA Chair Lord Pickles calls for tighter rules & more transparency for contractors & consultants working with govt, such as Lex Greenhill. He's also dismayed at the lack of proper process in former civil servant Bill Crothers taking a job at Greensill while still on Whitehall.
Lord Pickles says people like Lex Greensill who work with govt should be made to sign a "memorandum of understanding" governing the restrictions that would be placed on them when their public work has ended.
Lord Pickles says his "eyebrows did raise the full quarter-inch" when he heard about Bill Crothers & doubted his explanation that ACOBA didn't need to vet the appointment because Crothers was advising Greensill while still a civil servant.
Lord Pickles says, on Crothers, he has "never come across anything like this before" & that no one would have minded if he had wanted to do a milk round in his spare time. But working for Greensill needed a "full and frank explanation".
I think the MPs on the committee giving Lord Pickles a hard time about the lack of power ACOBA has are pushing at an open door. I'm not sure Pickles is the right person for them to be directing their frustration towards though!
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