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The UK’s prime civil servant will obtain a pay out of just about £250,000 when he steps down in September.
Sir Mark Sedwill confirmed he was leaving Whitehall final month as Boris Johnson introduced plans to separate his function as cupboard secretary and nationwide safety adviser into two posts.
His exit follows experiences of tensions between him and senior members of Mr Johnson’s crew in Downing Road.
On Wednesday, the PM signed off the £248,189 pension contribution.
The quantity was really helpful by Cupboard Workplace Everlasting Secretary Alex Chisholm, with recommendation from Civil Service Human Sources and authorized advisers, earlier than being agreed by Mr Johnson.
In a be aware from No 10, the PM mentioned the fee was “prone to be within the type of a pension contribution” for Sir Mark.
Earlier on Wednesday, Sir Mark instructed the Nationwide Safety Technique Committee he had not “resigned” however left his submit “by settlement” with the PM.
“We had concluded it was time to separate the roles once more and have a separate safety adviser and separate cupboard secretary,” he added.
Sir Mark mentioned the timing was “at his initiative”, because it was “by no means my intention to do this [job] long-term”, however the departure was “totally amicable”.
The UK’s chief negotiator in post-Brexit commerce talks with the EU, David Frost, will take over as nationwide safety adviser as a political appointee.
The Cupboard Workplace has revealed a job advert for the cupboard secretary place, with a wage of £200,000, and the function is open to present and former everlasting secretaries.
The one that will get the place will advise the prime minister on implementing coverage and the conduct of presidency.
Dominic Cummings, thought to be the prime minister’s most influential political adviser, has lengthy referred to as for an overhaul of the civil service.
‘Honest recreation’
Sir Mark is a profession diplomat who served as Ambassador to Afghanistan throughout a 20-year profession within the International Workplace, earlier than working alongside former Prime Minister Theresa Could as probably the most senior civil servant within the Dwelling Workplace.
He took over as cupboard secretary at brief discover following Sir Jeremy Heywood’s demise in November 2018.
Requested about experiences of nameless briefings from Downing Road towards him, Sir Mark instructed the committee that civil servants had turn into “truthful recreation” and it “goes with the territory”.
He added: “It’s by no means nice to seek out oneself, significantly as an official, within the midst of tales of that sort.
“I do not assume it’s ever nice in authorities, whether or not it’s towards ministers, between them and significantly towards officers, when you’ve gotten briefings to which you can’t actually reply, significantly these which can be off the file and sniping away.
“However it’s a regrettable function of contemporary politics, I am afraid.”
After he leaves authorities service in September, Sir Mark can be made a peer and can chair a brand new panel on world financial safety when the UK assumes the presidency of the G7 financial group of countries.