5 May 2000
The Prime Minister, with the agreement of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, has approved the appointment of Mr Brian Bender, CB as Permanent Secretary of MAFF. He will take up the appointment on 1 June. Brian Bender is currently Permanent Secretary at the Cabinet Office. His successor in that post will be announced shortly.
Notes for Editors
Brian Bender was born in 1949 and was educated at Greenford Grammar School and Imperial College, London, where he took a BSc and PhD in Physics. He is married and has a daughter and son. He joined the DTI in 1973 and has been seconded twice to the Office of the UK Permanent Representative to the EC: from 1977-1982 as First Secretary (Trade Policy) and then from 1985-1989 as Counsellor (Industry and Energy). From 1990-1993 he was Deputy Head of the European Secretariat at the Cabinet Office, and from 1993-1994 he was Head of the Regional Development Division at the DTI. From 1994-1998, he was Head of the European Secretariat at the Cabinet Office. He was a key member of the Prime Minister’s team for a number of EU Summits. From December 1998 he was Head of Public Service Delivery in the Cabinet Office, leading work on the Modernising Government White Paper and became Permanent Secretary, Cabinet Office in April 1999. His new appointment follows an open competition conducted by the Civil Service Commissioners. The post became vacant following the early retirement of Sir Richard Packer earlier this year. Brian Bender’s successor in the Cabinet Office will be chosen following an internal civil service wide selection process.
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