29 June 2000
The Prime Minister, with the agreement of the Minister for the Cabinet Office, has approved the appointment of Mavis McDonald CB, currently Director General, Housing Construction, Regeneration and Countryside Group in the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, to be Permanent Secretary of the Cabinet Office.
Notes for Editors
Mavis McDonald is aged 55 and was educated at Chadderton Grammar School for Girls and London School of Economics. She joined the Ministry of Housing and Local Government in 1966. She held a range of posts and became Director General, Housing Construction, Regeneration and Countryside Group in 1996 - with responsibility for policy development and programmes on housing and regeneration of some £6bn per year; sponsorship of the Construction Industry and Countryside and Wildlife policies. She has been closely involved in the Social Exclusion Unit’s work on Neighbourhood Renewal. Prior to taking up her current job she was Principal Establishment Officer for the Department of the Environment. Between 1988-91 she was a Non-Executive Director of Tarmac Housing Division. She is married with one son and one stepdaughter and is a Lay Governor of Birkbeck College.
The post became vacant following the appointment of Brian Bender to the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food earlier this month.
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