Minister misled jobs watchdog

A FORMER minister gave misleading information to the watchdog that polices the so-called Whitehall revolving door, it emerged yesterday.

Mark Hoban, the former Financial Secretary to the Treasury, told officials he had not had any contact with the accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers when he was in the post. This led the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments to let him take up a job as an adviser at PwC in 2015.

But Treasury documents reveal he had at least four meetings with PwC officials when he worked there. Mr Hoban told The Times that he had accidentally misled the committee. ‘I couldn’t remember having those meetings,’ he said.

‘It was an administrative cock-up.’