Exclusive: Top transport civil servant who oversaw HS2 to step down Transport and infrastructure Dame Bernadette Kelly, the top civil servant at the Department for Transport (DfT), is to step down after nearly eight years in the role. A Whitehall veteran with four decades of experience, Kelly was appointed permanent secretary in April 2017 following a stint as director general of the DfT’s rail group. She led work on [...]
Ex-cabinet secretary says £200,000 job is ‘massively underpaid’ Politics Ex-cabinet secretary Gus O'Donnell has said the UK's most senior civil servant is "massively underpaid" at £200,000 per year.