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Two Conservative MPs call for mandatory gender quotas for company boards

By Mark Pack | Tue 6th September 2011 - 10:25 am

As the Daily Telegraph reports of the much touted book by Matthew Hancock and Nadhim Zahawi:

Sanctions are also suggested against non-executive directors of failed companies. The authors also oppose non-executives at systemically-important banks having other board roles and also want the law changed so directors of financial institutions that require recourse to public funds to prevent bankruptcy are legally barred from joining the board at other companies. They also want to tackle the cult of the CEO by encouraging the City to appoint co-chief executives.

“There’s this idea that the CEO is so revered that it’s very difficult ever for

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The Ministry of Justice runs into a little furniture bother

By Mark Pack | Tue 19th October 2010 - 3:25 pm

Imagine the conversation later this year, somewhere in Whitehall:

Civil servant Good news Minister. Our new arrangements for buying furniture are coming up to the end of their first year and everything is looking really good.

Minister Excellent news. Do you mind letting me have some figures on how the arrangements have performed compared to the previous  contracts?

Civil servant I’m terribly sorry Minister, but we haven’t kept all the records of the previous contract.

Office chairMinister What about the records just from 2009 then?

Civil servant Sorry, but …

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