Barratt Developments PLC announced the appointment of Mike Scott as Chief Financial Officer. The date he will join Barratt is currently being finalised and will be announced in due course. Mike Scott, who is currently the Chief Financial Officer of Countryside Properties PLC ("Countryside"), has extensive experience in the housebuilding sector, having joined Countryside as Group Financial Controller in 2014. As previously announced, Jessica White will step down from the Board on 30 June 2021 and thereafter David Thomas, Barratt Group Chief Executive, who previously held the role of Barratt Chief Financial Officer for six years until July 2015, will assume temporary responsibility for the finance function. He will be supported by John Flynn, Group Operations Financial Controller and Jonathan Rumble, Group Financial Controller.