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Former cabinet secretary: ‘content’ with SLC tax deal
Whitehall e-mail also shows Alexander was told Lester would be kept off payroll
By David Hencke | 9 February 2012 | |Pic: Foreign Office
Proposals to allow the Student Loans Company’s chief executive to stay off its payroll were approved by the UK’s then cabinet secretary.
E-mails between Whitehall officials obtained by Exaro reveal why Sir Gus O’Donnell was “content” with what one internal memo described as the “tax efficient” arrangements.
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