Warmwell Files on Brian Bender, Permanent Secretary at Defra
The Telegraph article "Who is blamed for the foot and mouth crisis?" had this to say:
Brian Bender Maff/Defra Permanent Secretary
- Failed to see that ministry had a contingency plan in place for more than 10 cases.
- Ensured most important decisions taken during the outbreak were not recorded.
- Presided over "a culture predisposed to decision taking by committee with an associated fear of personal risk taking."
- "Ministry senior management was not sufficiently alert" to a host of factors, including need for non-veterinary staff.
- "Communications from senior management downwards had difficulty reaching their target.
- The message that foot and mouth was an overriding priority did not filter through effectively to the rest of the department".
- His department had a "silo mentality".
- Defra's "patchwork of unconnected systems" hampered intelligence on the spread of disease.
- His department's "financial control systems were not up to the task". ..."
Ministry 'unplanned' says top civil servant
... Brian Bender, the Permanent Secretary at Defra, was giving evidence to the
Defra Committee of MPs which scrutinises the department. ...
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... Q. Can Mr Bender please inform us of the identity of the company receiving
most of the compensation for the swine fever outbreak? ...
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... Did not express concerns about Defra shortcomings to ministers or to Brian Bender,
Permanent Secretary. ... Brian Bender Maff/Defra Permanent Secretary. ...
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Dear Warmwell You might like to use the attached - which is the list of
people and organisations called to present detailed oral ...
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... "I mean" phrase creeping in all the time, then we have no hope with Brian
Bender's incentivising lump word. However I have a theory ...
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... Mr Bender, the Permanent Secretary to DEFRA (previously MAFF) states: ... "72 It is apparent
from Mr Bender's evidence that the defendant (and the Government) have ...
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... There he will see brain Bender, Permanent Secretary at MAFF's successor DEFRA, say
that the delay was due to indecision at the highest levels of government. ...
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... by: SG's Subgroup on Vaccines meeting Meeting with Ben Gill, NFU Meeting at No 10
with PM, Nick Brown, Eliott Morley, CVO and Brian Bender, Permanent Secretary ...
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... However, on 3 July 2002, Brian Bender, permanent secretary at Defra, told the Public
Accounts Committee that the delay in calling in the army was due to ...
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... Addressing Brian Bender, the top civil servant at the Department of the Environment,
Food and Rural Affairs, Mr Davidson said: "I formed the view, perhaps as ...
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... which the group had been operating, and had subsequently also written to the.
MAFF Permanent Secretary (Brian Bender) on 27 April. 15. ...
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... The internal investigation was ordered by Animal Health Minister Ben Bradshaw and
Sir Brian Bender, the permanent secretary at the Department of the Environment ...
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... bonfire of the mandarins" will see virtually all 500 officials of civil service
grade seven and above - including permanent secretary Brian Bender - graded on ...
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... the SVS. Brian Bender is committed to making MAFF more open but the Chief
Scientists group remains excluded from this. There is ...
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