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10 Sept 2025 UK Ambassador to the US: Appointment Process

The Minister claims that new information has come to light, which has resulted in the ambassador being sacked. Can he confirm that this is the only new information, and that all the other information was in the Prime Minister’s knowledge?

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10 Sept 2025Passenger Rail Performance

Last week, London North Eastern Railway announced huge cuts to rail services from Berwick-upon-Tweed station, which serves not only the town of Berwick but my constituents in the Scottish Borders and North Northumberland. The Government promised more trains, but this is the opposite. LNER is now owned by the Government

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10 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1263)

So it was a headhunter who approached you?

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10 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1263)

Okay. And why do you think you were appointed?

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10 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1263)

Good morning, Ms Bassett. What motivated you to apply for this role?

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10 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1263)

Thank you, that is helpful. You noted that you were contacted by the Cabinet Office to alert you to the vacancy. Was that a personal approach? Are you aware of why the Cabinet Office made that approach directly to you?

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10 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1263)

Was that part of a wider process of how good candidates like you are alerted?

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9 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 847)

Was the funding for his post part of the additional resource that came from the Cabinet Office?

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9 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 847)

Before I ask about the integrated data service, I want to come back to the previous point about funding. You said that funding had been an issue previously. In the discussions you had with the board and your ministerial masters in the Cabinet Office, were you raising concerns about funding?

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9 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 847)

But did you ask Government? Did you ask Ministers for more money?

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9 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 847)

So you were able to get extra money in response to your call for help.

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9 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 847)

Correct. So funding then wasn’t an issue.

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9 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 847)

Sorry; I am not clear. You earlier said that funding was part of the problem. I have now asked, did you request more funding? You were then given more funding, so did that resolve the questions?

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9 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 847)

Right. So funding wasn’t an issue after that.

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9 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 847)

That is my point. Were you making that point to Ministers?

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9 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 847)

Told by whom?

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9 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 847)

So they were trying to restrict requests?

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9 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 847)

Were these discussions all informal or would there be a formal note of these discussions?

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9 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 847)

You would hope?

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9 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 847)

It was not normal practice to record and note something about—?

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