As an employee of the BBC (a public corporation), Mr Davey is not currently a "civil servant". He is a "public servant". See http://www.civilservant.org.uk/information-definitions.html ("public servants, but not civil servants, work for public corporations such as the BBC, Channel 4, the Bank of England, the communications regulator Ofcom, the Civil Aviation Authority, British Nuclear Fuels, and the British Waterways Board, who run the canals etc."), www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/medianews/article4219187.ece ("Mr Davey is a former civil servant..."), http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio4/entries/5a8c46ed-6c0a-4994-89a7-8cf120dd756b ("It’s a formidable task for the former civil servant and head of Arts Council England.").
As an employee of the BBC (a public corporation), Mr Davey is not currently a "civil servant". He is a "public servant". See http://www.civilservant.org.uk/information-definitions.html ("public servants, but not civil servants, work for public corporations such as the BBC, Channel 4, the Bank of England, the communications regulator Ofcom, the Civil Aviation Authority, British Nuclear Fuels, and the British Waterways Board, who run the canals etc."), www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/medianews/article4219187.ece ("Mr Davey is a former civil servant..."), http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio4/entries/5a8c46ed-6c0a-4994-89a7-8cf120dd756b ("It’s a formidable task for the former civil servant and head of Arts Council England.").
