Eric Pickles asks for full explanation of rules that let civil servant Bill Crothers work for Greensill
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A former Conservative Cabinet minister who vets new jobs of ministers and mandarins has called for urgent reform over “anomalies” that allowed conflicts of interest in Westminster and Whitehall.
Lord Pickles, the chair of the advisory committee on business appointments (Acoba), told a committee of MPs he was “very worried” after Bill Crothers, a senior civil servant, was allowed to work part-time, then full-time, for the collapsed finance house Greensill Capital without being vetted.
