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The former UK health secretary Matt Hancock did not comply with a public sector equality duty when he appointed the Conservative peer Dido Harding as head of a new public health quango, the high court has ruled.
The race and equality thinktank the Runnymede Trust successfully won its claim against the government over the appointment of testing Harding as chair of the National Institute for Health Protection, as well as the appointment of Mike Coupe as director of at NHS test and trace.
Two judges granted a declaration to the Runnymede Trust on Tuesday after considering arguments at a high court hearing in December.
The campaign group the Good Law Project had joined the trust in making complaints – arguing the government had not adopted an “open” process when making appointments to posts “critical to the pandemic response”.
However, judges dismissed the claim by the Good Law Project.
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