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From 1952 to 1954, the intelligence mission of GCHQ relocated to Cheltenham; the Security section remained at Eastcote, [85] and in March 1954 became a separate, independent organisation: the London Communications Security Agency (LCSA), [85] which in 1958 was renamed to the London Communications-Electronic Security Agency (LCESA).
[5] [6] The Doughnut accommodates 5,500 employees; GCHQ is the largest single employer in Gloucestershire. [5] [6] [7] Built to modernise and consolidate GCHQ's multiple buildings in Cheltenham, the Doughnut was completed in 2003, with GCHQ staff moving in the same year, [1] and fully moved into the building in 2004. [8]
The GCHQ trade union ban was a ban on trade union membership of employees at the Government Communications Headquarters in Cheltenham between 1984 and 1997. This was based on the claim by the Conservative government that it undermined national security .
In 2018, more than 200 people worked at the site, with a full fall-back contingency in case the main GCHQ site at Cheltenham should be off line for any reason. [12] With the new ATTIC building (Alan Turing Training and Innovation Centre), which coordinates training for the northern GCHQ network, staffing should rise to 300 at the site before 2020.
The force serves 637,000 people over an area of 1,024 square miles (2,650 km 2). and covers a number of royal residences, as well as Cheltenham Racecourse and the headquarters of GCHQ. [ 18 ] As of September 2023 [update] , the force consisted of 1,301 police officers , 119 police community support officers , 114 special constables and 397 ...
He joined GCHQ in 1972, and worked in intelligence operations. [2] In 1995 he became Director of Administration. [2] In 1998, he transferred to the Home Office, returning to GCHQ in Cheltenham in 2000 as Director of Finance, and taking over the role of Director of GCHQ in April 2003 as successor to Sir Francis Richards.
The GCHQ case also confirmed that non-legal conventions might be subject to "legitimate expectation". A convention would not have usually been litigable, and it was necessary for the court to demonstrate that it was in the present case: such a rule had been established in respect of Cabinet conventions in Attorney General v Jonathan Cape Ltd .
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