More on Clarence Mitchell's Role

Here, I mentioned that I had e-mailed the Central Office of Information, to try and find out more about this former BBC employee.
I have just received a reply which is described as confidential and copyright-bugger that.
Apparently Mitchell is on secondment to the Foreign Office for the specific purpose of "handling media relations related to the Madeleine McCann "disappearance" [ note not abduction] in Portugal".
Any further enquiries must be directed to the FCO.
  So this is the upshot. The British  taxpayer seems to be paying for a media consultant to a private company with no charitable status and over £300,000 quid in the bank.