The Guardian has discovered that Peter Riddell, until last month commissioner for public appointments, successfully asked the DCMS to change the Senior Independent Panel Member originally selected to assess candidates to be BBC chair.
We don't know who he objected to, but we do know who ended up on the panel. They were chaired by Sarah Healey, Permanent Secretary at the DCMS, joined by Mrs Blondel Cluff (Sir William Herschel Grammar, Slough and LL.B University of Westminster), lawyer, jeweller, and wife of Algy Cluff, oilman and one-time owner of The Spectator, and Catherine Baxendale (Dr Challoner's Grammar, Aylesbury and B.Sc, LSE) an HR consultant, formerly with Tesco and Procter & Gamble (brand manager for Pantene).
The Senior Independent Panel Member was Sir William Fittall, a retired civil servant and Anglican lay reader. Sir William (Christ Church, Oxford) settles disputes about Bishops and Vicars.
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