## Recruitment And Consultancy Freeze - Exceptions Approved - September 2012

1.  
During the month of September 2012, the following exceptions to the recruitment and consultancy freeze have been considered by the Chief Executive, in his capacity as Accounting Officer. 

2. 

The details are shown below: 
 

| Decision               | Approval    |
|------------------------|-------------|
| date                   |             |
| Ref: No. &             |             |
| directorate            |             |
| Summary of             |             |
| application            |             |
| Consultancy/           |             |
| recruitment            |             |
| 219                    |             |
| Consultancy            | Approved    |
| 4 September            |             |
| 2012                   |             |
| RPP                    |             |
| Scope for              |             |
| improvement in the     |             |
| efficiency of Network  |             |
| Rail expenditure -     |             |
| enhancements           |             |
| expenditure            |             |
| £30,000                |             |
| 220                    |             |
| RME                    |             |
| Consultancy            | Approved    |
| Best practice          |             |
| approaches to          |             |
| transparency and       |             |
| benchmarking current   |             |
| ORR policy             |             |
| 6 September            |             |
| 2012                   |             |
|                        |             |
| £36,000                |             |
| 221                    |             |
| Recruitment            | Approved    |
| 6 September            |             |
| 2012                   |             |
| RPP                    |             |
| Interim Rail Delivery  |             |
| Manager                |             |
|                        |             |
| 222                    |             |
| Recruitment            | Approved    |
| RPP                    |             |
| 13                     |             |
| September              |             |
| 2012                   |             |
| Cover for Head of      |             |
| Engineering and Asset  |             |
| Management             |             |
|                        |             |
| 223                    |             |
| Interim senior manager |             |
| Recruitment            | Approved    |
| RME                    |             |
| 14                     |             |
| September              |             |
| 2012                   |             |
|                        |             |
224 
Recruitment 
Approved 
RPP 
20 September 2012 
Planning and Operations team administrator 
225 
Recruitment 
Approved 
21 September 2012 
RPP 
Agency cover for Grade E analyst 
227 
Recruitment 
Approved 
RME 
24 September 
2012 
Extension to contract for PR13 work - 
proposal for a freight specific charge 
226 
Recruitment 
Approved 
CO 
27 September 2012 
Appointments through E-G recruitment 
scheme - HR, Finance 
and Information Management 
228 
Recruitment 
Approved 
28 September 2012 
RPP 
Additional operations advice - timetabling 
229 
28 September 
Recruitment 
Approved 
2012 
Legal 
Deputy Director of Legal Services 

 
3. 

The Deputy Director of Corporate Operations did not approve any applications for consultancy <£20,000