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LocatED: Ex-Tory minister to chair DfE property arm for £1k-a-day
The education secretary has appointed a former Conservative MP and minister as chair of government property company LocatED.
Former business and housing minister Mark Prisk took up the three-year role at LocatED earlier this month, after getting the nod from Gillian Keegan.
The arms-length body is responsible for buying and managing school sites on behalf of the Department for Education.
It has in recent years also been tasked with investigating how disused school land can be used, and how to decarbonise the school estate.
Prisk, who represented Hertford and Stortford from to , will earn £1, a day for an estimated 25 days a year at LocatED, the DfE said.
He replaces outgoing chair Michael Strong, who has held the post since the organisation’s creation in
In a press release, LocatED said Prisk &#;brings a wealth of experience having worked across the real estate, housing and construction markets both in the UK and internationally&#;.
New chair praises company&#;s &#;positive impact&#;
Prisk is a strategic adviser to Handley House, an international group of architects and designers, and is the independent chair of Saltaire Housing Ltd.
He also chairs the Joint Group for Non-Standardised Construction P
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MP Security
Since the killing of Jo Cox, MP, less than two years ago we have heard much in the media about the threats that our Member of Parliament are coming under.
As recently as January of this year a man was jailed for a string of threating abuses against Mark Prisk, the MP for Hertford and Stortford. Perhaps the most worrying aspect of the story around this attack is that Prisk was so fearful that he failed to attending a hustings. He is not the only MP who has had to change his course of action due to threats. In February last year Diane Abbott, who was suffering cyber-attacks claimed she was fearful of walking the streets of her own constituency.
Such tales have a far wider implication for all of us. Neither Prisk nor Abbott was physically assaulted, but the idea that Members of Parliament are so fearful for their safety that they fail in their duties as MPs in effect disenfranchises their constituents. Yet despite the public outcries from MPs themselves, there seems to be a lack of interest in the obvious course of action in hiring Close Protection Officers.
This may sound an extraordinary claim. Again you can refer to the media and read that MPs have had their personal allowances for security upped and of course the House of Commons must be one of the safest work
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