Welsh Development Agency Temporary Chief Finance Officer

EDM number 890 in 1994-95, proposed by Rhodri Morgan on 23/03/1995.

That this House is appalled that the Welsh Development Agency has appointed Mr Stuart Ruben, partner of KLR and Company, as Temporary Chief Finance Officer at a per diem consultancy fee of ú1,300 for a three day week for a three month period, thereby earning ú50,000 at a rate which is equivalent to a salary of ú320,000 per year; and believes that this temporary appointment totally contradicts the strategic guidance letter of the Secretary of State for Wales dated 23rd February and placed in the Library, which called on the Agency to 'rely more on the professional judgment of its own staff and significantly less on consultants' and going on to call on the Agency to cut spending on consultants by ú700,000 in 1995-96 relative to 1994-95, a sum which will not go very far if spent on Mr Ruben and others in his bracket.

This motion has been signed by a total of 36 MPs.