FSA poaches from DWP to bolster spin team after another exit

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The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has raided the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to find a new director of communications after the current head stepped down.

Zitah McMillan, currently acting director of communications at DWP, will take up the role in January, reporting to chief executive Hector Sants. She will replace Tom Kelly, who is leaving the organisation to take up the same position at Network Rail. Kelly himself only joined the FSA in May 2010 and had previously been Tony Blair's official spokesman while he was still Prime Minister. Sants said: "[McMillan] will join our senior management team at a time of considerable change, as the FSA continues to deliver its intensive supervisory approach and influence the international regula...

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