Source · Select Committees · Science, Innovation and Technology Committee
Recommendation 15
15
Paragraph: 92
UK ARPA’s director should play a key role in the recruitment of its personnel.
Recommendation
UK ARPA’s director should play a key role in the recruitment of its personnel. Programme managers should be ambitious ‘disruptors’, from a range of backgrounds, who are impact oriented, focused on the advancement of science and have CEO- like qualities. Attracting these people will require sufficient remuneration. The Government should explain how UK ARPA’s programme managers can be appointed outside normal pay restrictions in order to ensure that they are sufficiently remunerated.
Paragraph Reference:
92
Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government
Acknowledged
Recommendation 15 (Paragraph 92) suggests ARIA should pay its Programme Manager position outside the normal Civil Service pay restrictions to ensure they are sufficiently remunerated. We agree with the spirit of this recommendation and we will seek agreement to pay above the usual public pay restrictions through the appropriate internal process with HMT.