SENIOR APPOINTMENT: HEAD OF ECONOMIC AND DOMESTIC AFFAIRS SECRETARIAT

10 Sep 2001 12:00 AM

The Prime Minister has approved the appointment of Paul Britton as Head of Economic and Domestic Affairs Secretariat in the Cabinet Office to replace Suma Chakrabarti. Paul Britton will be taking up his post on 13 September.

Suma Chakrabarti will be moving initially to the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions before returning to the Department for International Development.

NOTES TO EDITORS

Paul Britton has been Director, Town and Country Planning in the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions since May 2001.

He joined the Department of the Environment in 1971 as an Administration Trainee. He has spent the majority of his career in and around the Department of the Environment. He was Private Secretary to the Minister of Housing, Construction and Water in 1983-84. In May 1997 he came on loan to the Cabinet Office where he was successively Deputy Head of the Constitution Secretariat and moved to the Economic and Domestic Secretariat as Deputy Head in September 1998.

Paul Britton was educated at Clifton College and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He is married with one son and one daughter.

Paul Britton secured this appointment following a competition for the post within Whitehall. Four candidates were interviewed for the post by Sir Richard Wilson and Sir Joseph Pilling. The post will be paid within SCS Pay Band 7 (#77,635 - #116,904)

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