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Simon Briscoe [email protected]

FOI Reference: FOI321902 09/11/2015 Dear Simon Briscoe

I refer to your request where you asked:

“Please can you send me all the information that was put in the public domain about the recruitment of the current and four previous National Statisticians. The information to include but not be limited to the advertisement(s) and applicants pack, and all allied press releases and similar announcements regarding the process including the announcement of the successful applicant. Please include any announcements of reappointments.

Please also set out the members of the interview panels.

If any of this information is on a webpage, please supply the link.”

I am writing to advise you that following a search of our paper and electronic records, I have established that some of the information you requested is held by the Cabinet Office.

Cabinet Office have retained some of the information you requested and this is from the last two National Statistician appointments in 2014 and 2009. We do not routinely retain information any further back the last competition held. Of the information requested we hold the advert placed on the Civil Service website and the candidate brief and job description from the 2014 competition (both attached). The composition of the panel was: ● Sir David Normington, First CS Commissioner ● Sir Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary ● Sir Andrew Dilnot, Chair UK Statistics Authority ● Sir Nicholas Macpherson, , HM Treasury ● Dame Colette Bowe, Board Member UK Statistics Authority

From the 2009 appointment we hold the advert (attached) and the composition of the competition panel, which was: Janet Paraskeva, First Civil Service Commissioner (Chair) ● Sir Gus O'Donnell, Cabinet Secretary, ● Sir Michael Scholar, Chair UK Statistics Authority ● Sir Nick Macpherson, Permanent Secretary, HM Treasury ● Professor David Hand, Imperial College London Any announcements regarding the appointments would have been made on either the UK Statistics or Office for National Statistics websites. The relevant addresses are: http://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/ http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/index.html If you have any queries about this letter, please contact the FOI team. Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications. If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your request or wish to request an internal review, you should write to:

Helen Ewen Cabinet Office 70 Whitehall London SW1A 2AS

email: [email protected]

You should note that the Cabinet Office will not normally accept an application for internal review if it is received more than two months after the date that the reply was issued.

If you are not content with the outcome of your internal review, you may apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Generally, the Commissioner cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the complaints procedure provided by Cabinet Office. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

The Information Commissioner’s Office Wycliffe House Water Lane Wilmslow Cheshire SK9 5AF

Yours sincerely

FOI Team Cabinet Office