PM Transcripts

FOR MEDIA 20 DECEMBER 1990
The present Secretary of the Department of Industry,
Technology and Commerce, Dr Malcolm McIntosh, has accepted
an appointment with the Government of the United Kingdom
initially for a period of three years as Chief of Defence
Procurement in the Ministry of Defence, and will be taking
up duty in that position early in the new year.
The Government will be recommending to the Governor-General
the appointment in his place of Mr Neville Stevens, a Deputy
Secretary in the Department.
Mr Stevens has been a Deputy Secretary in the Department for
over five years and has played over that period a crucial
role in the development and implementation of the
Government's industry policy.
He has also held responsibility, at deputy level, for the
management of the Department.
He has had oversight of the Bureau of Industry Economics,
and has been a member of the Management and Investment
Companies Licensing Board, and the Government Industrial
Research Development Board.
He has been the Ministerial Observer on the Snowy Mountains
Engineering Corporation Board, has been part of the group of
senior officials responsible for the coordination of the
economic relationship with China, and the Australian
Chairman of the Japan-Australia industrial cooperation
talks.
Mr Stevens began his career in the Treasury, and moved from
there to the Priorities Review Staff in the Department of
the Prime Minister and Cabinet in September 1975.
He then held a range of senior positions in the Department
of the Prime Minister and Cabinet until his appointment in
June 1985 as Deputy Secretary in the Department of Industry,
Technology anrd Commerce.
Mr Stevens will take up the appointment as Secretary from 22
December 1990.