{"id":95683,"date":"2018-09-17T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=baaa4dc1286a05bb7ffb43afc71619d3"},"modified":"2018-09-17T13:55:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T13:55:00","slug":"news-story-hmrcs-nick-lodge-joins-the-bank-of-england-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=95683","title":{"rendered":"News story: HMRC\u2019s Nick Lodge joins the Bank of England"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Nick Lodge, Director General of <abbr title=\"HM Revenue and Customs\">HMRC<\/abbr>\u2019s Strategy Group, has taken up a new position with the Bank of England.<\/p>\n<p>He was first appointed to <abbr title=\"HM Revenue and Customs\">HMRC<\/abbr>\u2019s Executive Committee in 2012 as Director General for Benefits and Credits, and was formally appointed an <abbr title=\"HM Revenue and Customs\">HMRC<\/abbr> Commissioner in the same year. He\u2019s since led Transformation before taking up the new Strategy Group leadership.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"HM Revenue and Customs\">HMRC<\/abbr> Chief Executive, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/people\/jon-thompson--3\">Jon Thompson<\/a>, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Nick has given a huge amount to this department, leading major change and operational programmes, and providing strong leadership within the Executive Committee and Board. I wish Nick well in his new opportunity and for the future.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Nick Lodge said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I\u2019m excited to be joining the Bank of England, leading a major programme at the heart of the UK\u2019s financial infrastructure. It\u2019s a great role that I\u2019m really looking forward to and that brings me back to banking, where I began my career.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I\u2019ve loved my time at <abbr title=\"HM Revenue and Customs\">HMRC<\/abbr>. I\u2019ve been very fortunate to have worked with great people, as part of some brilliant teams and in a wide range of different areas. I have every confidence <abbr title=\"HM Revenue and Customs\">HMRC<\/abbr> will continue to deliver.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Interim arrangements for filling Nick\u2019s current role will be announced shortly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Director General of HMRC\u2019s Strategy Group has taken up a new position with the Bank of England.<\/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\/95683"}],"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=95683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95721,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95683\/revisions\/95721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}