Eric Pickles, head of advisory committee on business appointments, tells MPs he warned of a scandal ‘but this is not where I expected it to come from’
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Still addressing MPs on the Pacac, Pickles says the public have a right to know the arrangements for second roles being approved by the Cabinet Office.
He said: “I would expect it to be recorded in a register. I would have expected that register to be transparent. I would have expected the rules to be known. So far as I know, the rules have never been published. Therefore, I have asked them to publish the rules- this is not a satisfactory situation.”
This is from freelance journalist Henry Dyer:
Pickles tells PACAC that ACOBA has come into an arrangement with Cabinet Office where anyone in breach of the rules is reported to the Cab Office and if they are in receipt of an honour, the breach “will be taken into consideration”.
