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[malvolio]

Oh we can be sure SKB already is.. ...

[malvolio]

Yes it is. The contract is between YourCo and the agency, or your umbrella and the agency or your LLP and the agency. Unless of course, you think you are not a contactor running their own business.

My first post in this thread pointed out reasonably clearly why the OP was going nowhere....

[malvolio]

OK, so carry on with your campaign. Just be very clear what your objectives are and who your target is. It's not being defeatist to point out that you were talking about the wrong issue.

You also have to overcome the position of the DWP, which is that any business can choose which businesses...

[malvolio]

It's a plan. Two discredited nonentities will surely have the influence to move a £24bn a year industry......

[malvolio]

True enough, except nobody that doesn't currently hold a post needing clearance will have clearance. And the "willing to undergo" nonsense has been around for about 15 years as a workaround. Doesn't make a blind bit of difference though.

Let's be clear. This is the fault of some...

[malvolio]

That's been known for years. That's also been ignored for years. There is an active, advertised LinkedIn group called "DV and SC cleared people only" or some such set up years ago by an employee of S3 Group. I challenged him once - "It's what the client's demand" was the reply....

[malvolio]

Cost us several 10ks of pounds in 2006. How much does one round table (there were many more than one meeting) with people like the head of GCHQ cost, do you suppose? Won't be any cheaper now.

But that's not the point. The issue is of agencies not adhering to the guidelines.

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[malvolio]

You won't.

I kicked off a major push on this around 2006. We worked with the Cabinet Office to understand the rules around clearance (they are not laws, merely guidelines), to understand the financial impacts of drawing ministry resources from a limited (and often outdated) gene pool, and...