Senior government comms man exits

CORPORATE COMMS NEWS BITE: The permanent secretary for government communication, Matt Tee, has announced he will step down from his job at the Cabinet Office next March and will not be replaced. The news is further confirmation that the current government plans to considerably cut back on the size of its communication operations.

In a letter to staff, seen by PR Week, Tee admitted that with upcoming budget cuts government comms will be considerably reduced, to the extent that there will no longer be a need for someone at a permanent secretary level to be concerned exclusively with communications.

According to PR Week, he said in his note: “The work to reconfigure parts of government communication and to make very significant savings in departmental communications will be very challenging. I recognise that it will be difficult to justify a permanent secretary role as head of a smaller communications profession and I am going to seek fresh challenges”.

Posted Wednesday December 8 2010 by Chris Cooke