{"id":69095,"date":"2016-03-30T10:08:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T10:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=81a98f7cc4c1239baa3f1e2aa95e2a00"},"modified":"2016-03-30T10:08:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T10:08:17","slug":"news-story-andrew-rhodes-appointed-director-general-dwp-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=69095","title":{"rendered":"News story: Andrew Rhodes appointed Director General, DWP Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Sir Robert Devereux, the Permanent Secretary at the Department for Work and Pensions, announced the appointment on 23 March 2016, of Andrew Rhodes as Director General, <abbr title=\"Department for Work and Pensions\">DWP<\/abbr> Operations.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I am delighted to announce the appointment of Andrew Rhodes. He is an extremely talented public servant, with a wealth of experience leading operations across government.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Andrew Rhodes said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s an honour and privilege to take on the role of Director General, <abbr title=\"Department for Work and Pensions\">DWP<\/abbr> Operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The dedication and hard work of colleagues across <abbr title=\"Department for Work and Pensions\">DWP<\/abbr> is something I\u2019ve always been impressed with. I look forward to working with them as we continue to deliver great service to the millions of people across Great Britain.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Director General, <abbr title=\"Department for Work and Pensions\">DWP<\/abbr> Operations leads a workforce of some 65,000 <abbr title=\"Department for Work and Pensions\">DWP<\/abbr> civil servants, operating from around 900 sites across Great Britain including: jobcentres, contact centres, benefit centres, pension centres as well as co-locations within local authorities and other organisations. <\/p>\n<p>In 2015-16, <abbr title=\"Department for Work and Pensions\">DWP<\/abbr> Operations made payments totalling more than \u00a3170 billion. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Rhodes has been appointed Director General of DWP Operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}