Last week a separate employment tribunal heard how Mike Hill sent inappropriate texts to a member of Parliamentary staff and later sexually molested her and how.
Latest civil service & public affairs moves May 17
New appointments in the civil service, UK politics, and public affairs, via our colleagues at Dods People
Government departments
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs – Lord Benyon appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Rural Affairs and Biosecurity), replacing Lord Gardiner.
Sea Fish Industry Authority – Michael Sheldon appointed as Chair and Jeff Halliwell as Deputy Chair.
Department for Health and Social Care – Thomas Waite appointed as Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England on an interim basis for the next year.
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy – Vikas Shah and Stephen Hill appointed as non-executive board members.
KATE Hollern faces a call to consider resignation as an MP after she quit the Labour front bench following allegations made about her in an employment tribunal. The 66-year-old gave up her job as shadow local government minister after being accused of trying to intimidate a colleague seeking to assist a parliamentary worker who raised allegations of sexual harassment against a former Labour MP. The Blackburn MP left the role on opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer’s frontbench following the comments which were made in the tribunal hearing against Mike Hill. Now Cllr John Slater, the leader of Blackburn with Darwen Council’s Conservative group, has called on her to quit the House of Commons if the claims are true.