Edwina Hart is making headlines with a slap down from the Information Commissioner over her refusal to acknowledge and then publish the critical Mckinsey & Co report last year while she was Health Minister.
It good to see Welsh Minsters being held to account for some of the decisions they make (take note Opposition leaders), but its worrying for those who want to see the future disclosure and transparency if the complaint is challenged, because her new Business Department is paranoid enough without having a control freak Minister in charge of it.
However there is a more interesting and telling news about the new Business Minister today , news that she has hired the former Wales Office Head of Communications Andrew Mathias is to become her new Head of Communication & Marketing at the Business, Enterprise Science & Technology Department the Cardiff Bay.
According to David Williamson, Andrew is well liked and has worked with five Welsh Secretaries including the current holder Cheryl Gillan, so he has experience of dealing with strong personalities.
But for all the niceties, our Business Minster still doesn’t have a strategy or a Director General as I blogged about a couple of weeks back, but has hired some pretty heavy weight reinforcements to try and sell her Department and the Welsh Government’s ongoing failures over the Welsh economy to a skeptical business community – good to see she’s got her priorities sorted.Any source
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