US EditionTop MoD Civil Servant to Leave in Wake of Afghan Data Breach
UNITED KINGDOM, JUL 31 – David Williams will step down after four and a half years, amid efforts to renew leadership following a data leak that exposed nearly 19,000 vulnerable Afghan allies, officials said.
- Stepping down this autumn, David Williams, the MoD’s top civil servant, will leave his role as permanent secretary, with the recruitment process for his successor under way.
- Earlier this month, a major Afghan data leak at UK Special Forces headquarters, which went undetected for months and was subject to an MoD superinjunction, was revealed.
- An official at UK Special Forces headquarters accidentally emailed a spreadsheet with personal details of almost 19,000 Afghan nationals seeking refuge from the Taliban, along with details of over 100 British officials, including special forces and MI6 personnel.
- Amid accountability calls, Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, Labour MP and chairman of the defence select committee, said the committee will inquire into the breach’s scope and how it occurred.
- Amid wider civil service reshuffles, Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton will take up his appointment in September this year, following Sir Matthew Rycroft's departure earlier this year.
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The Independent (US)Ministry of Defence’s top civil servant to step down weeks after Afghan data leak
David Williams leaves the MoD amid ongoing shake up of roles
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The chief civil servant at the Ministry of Defence will be replaced in the wake of the Afghan data breach, the department has announced. The move follows one of the worst UK data breaches for decades being revealed to the public last month, in a major embarrassment for defence and intelligence services. The leak, which went undetected for months and was then subject to a super-injunction, put the identities of British spies, soldiers, and vulner…
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