Simon Case ‘to step down in January’

Simon Case might step down in January, in line with reviews.

The cupboard secretary is about to remain on to supervise the transition between the Conservatives and the incoming authorities, with polls pointing to a brand new Labour administration.

Case is planning to stop within the early new 12 months, “after fulfilling his need to make sure continuity throughout a time of constitutional change, and having mirrored on his private circumstances”,  in line with The Instances.

The newest contender to interchange Case is Olly Robbins, a former everlasting secretary on the Division for Exiting the European Union below Theresa Might, in line with the newspaper.

Robbins was perm sec at DexEU from 2016 to 2017, then chief Brexit adviser and the PM’s adviser for Europe from 2017 to 2018.

He left the civil service in 2019 after Boris Johnson grew to become prime minister, becoming a member of Goldman Sachs. He’s at the moment works at Hakluyt, a consultancy arrange by a gaggle of former MI6 officers.

Robbins can be reportedly being thought-about for the Downing Avenue everlasting secretary position, which has been vacant for 2 years for the reason that departure of Samantha Jones. This was the position Case held earlier than changing into cab sec in September 2020. Earlier than Case, the position had been left absent for eight years.

Robbins joins an assortment of former and present perm secs who’ve been rumoured to interchange Case, together with:

• Dame Antonia Romeo, perm sec on the Ministry of Justice
• Tamara Finkelstein, perm sec on the Division for Atmosphere, Meals and Rural Affairs
• Jeremy Pocklington, Division for Power Safety and Internet Zero perm sec
• Sir Peter Schofield, Division for Work and Pensions perm sec
• Sarah Healey, Division for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities perm sec
• Dame Melanie Dawes, Ofcom chief govt
• Dame Sharon White, former Treasury second perm sec

Romeo has been the highest civil servant on the MoJ since 2021 and was beforehand perm sec on the Division for Worldwide Commerce. Finkelstein has led Defra since 2019, her first perm sec position.

Pocklington solely grew to become DESNZ perm sec final 12 months, following equipment of presidency adjustments made by Rishi Sunak, however has beforehand led the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Native Authorities and its successor DLUHC.

Healey, like Pocklington, modified jobs final 12 months because of the equipment of presidency adjustments, changing into perm sec at DLUHC, having beforehand led the Division for Digital, Tradition, Media and Sport.

Schofield has led the DWP since 2018, whereas Dawes has been Ofcom chief since 2021 and is a former perm sec on the Division for Communities and Native Authorities.

Dame Sharon White is at the moment chair of the John Lewis Partnership, however is stepping down subsequent March.