The Department of Energy and Climate Change has come under fire for hiring the boss of the competition watchdog as its permanent secretary. Last week the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) concluded a two-year probe into the energy industry that yielded watered-down reforms derided by critics as a “waste of time and money” The publication came just weeks after the CMA’s chief executive, Alex Chisholm, was unveiled as the new top civil servant at the department. Chisholm, who headed Ireland’s communications watchdog, joins in eight days.
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