Documents suggest Bill Crothers founded consultancy business while still serving in Whitehall
One of Britain’s most senior civil servants, now embroiled in the Greensill scandal, waited more than a year to inform the business appointments watchdog he had started his own firm while still serving in Whitehall.
Documents suggest Bill Crothers, who was the government’s chief commercial officer until 2015 and founded its £15bn-per-year business contracts division – the Crown Commercial Service – had a second private business interest before he left the civil service.