Nick Hurd (- Shadow Minister (Charities, Social Enterprise and Volunteering), Shadow Minister; Ruislip - Northwood, Conservative)

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office pursuant to the answer of 7 May 2009, Official Report, column 427W, on departmental manpower, whether the Central Office of Information's post of Head of Public Engagement is a new post; whether the post is part of the Government Communications Network; and what the (a) job specification and (b) salary range associated with the post is.

Tessa Jowell (Minister of State, Cabinet Office; Dulwich & West Norwood, Labour)

I have asked the Chief Executive of the Central Office of Information to reply to the hon. Member.

Letter from Mark Lund, dated October 2009:

As Chief Executive of the Central Office of Information (COI), I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question (290124).

(a) This is a new post.

(b) The post does form part of the Government Communications Network.

(c) The job specification and salary range are contained in the attached document.

A copy of the Job Specification was posted on our website as part of the recruitment process, and has now been placed in the Libraries of the House.