The new boss of the government’s Department of Community, Culture and Leisure has been announced.
Colin Kniveton will take over as chief executive following the appointment of Nick Black as chief cxecutive at the Department of Infrastructure.
Mr Kniveton is taking on the responsibility in addition to his current role under the ‘business change steering group’ supporting the comprehensive Scope of Government review of public services. This is an interim arrangement pending completion of the review, which is due to report by the end of this year.
He was previously chief executive of the Department of Economic Development.
However, he took a break from his civil service job in the Isle of Man and went on secondment to Sark in the Channel Islands.
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He was previously the chief executive officer at the former departments of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and Tourism and Leisure.
At the top of his new in-tray is the long-running bus dispute.
His department is responsible for the nationalised Bus Vannin service.