Senior NSW public servant set to face questions over recruitment for London trade job

Investment NSW head, Amy Brown, suggested the inquiry could ask her managing director, Kylie Bell, about the recruitment process for a London trade role. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

A senior New South Wales bureaucrat will be asked at a parliamentary inquiry about how a prominent business figure became a “late” addition to candidates in the running to be the state’s new trade tsar in London, after another person had already been identified as the frontrunner for the job.

After weeks of scandal over the appointment of former deputy premier John Barilaro to a senior trade commissioner role in New York, attention this week turned to the London job.