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Sir Michael Bett,
CBE
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and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
(born 1935) is a retired English business executive, personnel manager and public servant.
Educated at
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Pembroke College (officially "The Master, Fellows and Scholars of the College or Hall of Valence-Mary") is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college is the third-oldest college of the university and has over 700 ...
, Bett became director of industrial relations at the
Engineering Employers' Federation Make UK, formerly the Engineering Employers' Federation, represents manufacturers in the United Kingdom.
Purpose
Make UK provides businesses with advice, guidance and support in employment law, employee relations, health, safety, climate and envi ...
in 1970; he was subsequently personnel director at
General Electric
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(1972–77) and the
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(1977–81), before moving to
British Telecom
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(BT) where he held a series of management roles before becoming managing director BTUK in 1988 and then deputy chairman in 1991 (stepping down to be a non-executive director in 1994); he was also chairman of the telecommunications company
Cellnet
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(1991–99),
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''Who's Who
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'' (online ed., Oxford University Press
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, 2021). Retrieved 11 August 2021 a joint venture between BT and the security firm
Securicor
Securicor plc was one of the United Kingdom's largest security businesses. It was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but merged with Group 4 Falck in 2004.
History
The Company was founded by Edward Shortt, a former Liberal Cabinet Minister, ...
.
Bett was appointed chairman of the
Nurses Pay Review Body (1990), the
Social Security Advisory Committee The Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC) is a statutory body that provides impartial advice to the UK government on social security issues. When the SSAC reports on government proposals for regulations the report must be presented to Parliament ...
(1993) and the
Armed Forces Independent Review of Manpower (1994). He left those posts in 1995, the year he was appointed
First Civil Service Commissioner
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; he remained in office until 2000. Alongside a number of other directorships, he was also chairman of the Inspectorate of the Security Industry from 1994 to 2007 (the
National Security Inspectorate from 2000), a higher education pay review in the late 1990s, and the
Pensions Protection and Investment Accreditation Board from 2000 to 2006.
Having been
Pro-Chancellor of
Aston University
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since 1993, he served as
Chancellor
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from 2004 to 2011. Bett was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1990 New Year Honours, and was knighted in the 1995 Birthday Honours for "services to training and personnel management".
Supplement to the London Gazette
', 16 June 1995 (issue 54066), p. 1.
References
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1935 births
Living people
English businesspeople
English civil servants
Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge
Knights Bachelor
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire