Entrust chairman Lord Cranbrook told letsrecycle that he endorsed the company's official statement which said that Dr Sills “has resigned to pursue other interests”. But Lord Cranbrook declined to comment on whether the departure was connected in any way to the controversy in the spring when Entrust had to apologise to the Environment Select Committee. Lord Cranbrook said simply that “the issue is in the public domain”.
Since April, Dr Sills has been “on leave” with the organisation gagged over his whereabouts before revealing this week that Dr Sills has decided to leave the company, which regulates Landfill Tax credit schemes.
Lord Cranbrook praised Dr Sills for his work and said: “He piloted Entrust's early progress as the fledgling regulator, assisting the scheme's evolution and ensuring that all participants had basic information with which to work.”
He added: “Dr Sills led a period of rapid growth in the organisation, where we had to respond to the increasing demands from all stakeholders for more information and analysis of the scheme and related activities and projects, and deal with a challenging political environment in which the scheme’s contributions to the national waste strategies have been under close scrutiny.”
There has been discussion within Entrust about the future strategy for the organisation following the environment sub-committee's criticisms but Lord Cranbrook said he was positive about Entrust's future. “Everything is going well for Entrust. We are holding a meeting next week to draw up a list of what the organisation needs in a new chief executive. Until then, Neil Carrigan, director of operations, and Mike Whiting, head of finance and administration, have been appointed joint acting chief executives.”
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