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HM Treasury financial management advisory panel publications
HM Treasury is pleased to announce the launch of two new publications produced by a number of influential government advisors on financial management. The reports are titled Doing the Business: Embedding Financial Management Skills in Government and Managing Performance in the Public Sector - an external perspective.
They are available on-line at http://thegfp.treasury.gov.uk (a limited number of free copies are available from CIPFA, 3 Robert Street, London, EC2N 6RL Telephone 0207 543 5600).
Sir Gus O'Donnell, Cabinet Secretary and Nick Macpherson, HM Treasury's Permanent Secretary endorse both publications and agree that improving performance and financial management is an important part of the current public sector reform and vital in enhancing the delivery of cost-effective public services.
Commenting on the publication, Dame Mary Keegan, Head of Government Finance Profession, said: "We believe that the advice in these reports may be of considerable assistance to departments and their delivery bodies throughout the wider public sector".
She added:
"We are grateful to the members of the many professional advisory firms and bodies who gave their time to work with us and that the publications complement the recent Whitehall Capability Reviews and existing external assessments made of local government, health and police".
NOTES FOR THE EDITOR
1. In June 2006, HM Treasury hosted a conference for Financial Management Advisors to Government. Approximately 40 organisations were represented. The aim of the event was to explain the central elements of HM Treasury's financial management change agenda, and for us to listen to the reactions and advice of those who are currently working with public sector bodies. The firms where keen to assist with our work and volunteered to establish four Advisory Panels which have been exchanging views over the last year or so.
Representatives from the Cabinet Office, HM Treasury, the National School of Government and other departments have also been involved in the discussions. A follow-up conference in the summer of 2007 reinforced the key messages and the advisors expressed themselves keen to see some formal output from their work. The Four Panel Chairs were:
2. STEVE FREER
Steve Freer was appointed as CIPFA's Chief Executive in February 2000, following a successful career spanning the public and private sectors. He has held senior finance positions with three large local authorities - Birmingham City Council, Nottinghamshire and Warwickshire County Councils - and has also worked as a successful management consultant with Coopers & Lybrand (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers).
Steve also holds a number of non-executive positions. He is a member of the Boards of the Centre for Public Scrutiny and the Local Government Leadership Centre. He is also non-executive member of the Board and chair of the Audit Committee of the National Audit Office. He has recently been appointed as a technical adviser at the Board of the International Federation of Accountants.
3. NICK JACKSON
Nick Jackson is Head of Local Government Consulting at Capgemini. He Chaired the Performance Management panel. Nick has worked extensively within the public sector primarily on financial and performance management.
He was an adviser to the OGC's Efficiency Programme responsible for overseeing implementation of the Gershon Review. Nick is a former Government Accountant and has worked with a number of departments supporting implementation of resource accounting. His areas of expertise include strategy development, performance management and improvement, and implementing finance and budgetary systems.
4. NIGEL JOHNSON
Nigel Johnson is the lead public sector audit partner with Deloitte. He Chaired the Corporate Structures Advisory Panel. He has over 20 years public sector audit and advisory experience and over 30 years corporate audit experience. His clients include organisations in local and central government bodies and in the NHS. His expertise includes assessing internal control, financial and performance management arrangements as well as value for money. He advises on risk and governance issues and he has extensive experience of reporting to and advising Audit Committees in both public and private sectors. Nigel's wide experience is recognised through his membership of various technical and professional groups considering public sector developments in financial reporting, corporate governance and risk management. These include the ICAEW's public sector audit sub-committee and the Auditing Practices Board's public sector committee.
5. CHARLES B TILLEY
Charles joined CIMA as its Chief Executive in 2001. He chaired the Best Practice Panel. A former KPMG partner and Finance Director of the Hambros Banking Group, Charles has overall responsibility for developing and implementing CIMA's strategy, and leads its Management Team. He is regularly involved in the issues affecting the global accounting profession, and takes an active role in CIMA's Thought Leadership programme.
Other recent projects included collaborations with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Radley Yeldar and Tomkins plc, on a corporate reporting initiative entitled Report Leadership.
He is a Non-Executive Director of Great Ormond Street Hospital, and recently retired from the Board of the International Federation of Accountants. He is also a regular commentator on a range of corporate governance issues, international standards, narrative reporting and financial management issues.
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