HM Treasury
Her Majesty's Treasury (commonly known as HM Treasury) is the United Kingdom's economics and finance ministry.
Contents
Background
According to the HM Treasury website the Treasury "is the government’s economic and finance ministry, maintaining control over public spending, setting the direction of the UK’s economic policy and working to achieve strong and sustainable economic growth." It is a ministerial department, supported by 7 agencies and public bodies. [1]
People
Ministers
- George Osborne - Chancellor - overall responsibility for the work of the Treasury.
- Danny Alexander MP - Chief Secretary to the Treasury
- David Gauke - Financial Secretary
- Priti Patel - Exchequer Secretary
- Andrea Leadsom - Economic Secretary
- Paul Deighton - Commercial Secretary to the Treasury, replaced Lord Sassoon with effect from January 2013
Previous Ministers
- Mark Hoban MP Financial Secretary to the Treasury
- David Gauke MP - Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury
- Chloe Smith MP - Economic Secretary to the Treasury
Civil servants
- Sir Nicholas Macpherson - Permanent Secretary HM Treasury (Earns £175,000 - £179,999 pa)
- R Shostak Head of Prime Minister's Delivery Unit and DG Performance Management (Earns £165,000 - £169,999)
- JMG Taylor - Financial Services and Stability Director (Earns £160,000 - £164,999 pa)
- Tom Scholar - 2nd Permanent Secretary (Earns £150,000 - £154,999 pa)
Special Advisers
- Rupert Harrison - has been Chief of Staff to Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne since 2010. Harrison has worked with Osborne since 2006 as his chief economic adviser.
- Jennifer Donnellan
- Ramesh Chhabra
- Neil O'Brien - Neil led Policy Exchange for five years, "cementing the think tank's position as the leading policy organisation in the UK." Prior to joining Policy Exchange, Neil was director of Open Europe, a cross-party think tank working for free market reform in Europe. [2] before becoming special adviser to George Osborne in November 2012.
Former Special Advisers
- Poppy Mitchell-Rose - was special adviser to the Chancellor from 2006 up until December 2012, before becoming associate director at Freud Communications in April 2013 [3]
Publications
Contact
Website: http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/about_index.htm
Resources
Notes
- ↑ HM Treasury, GOV.UK, accessed 30 September 2014
- ↑ Neil O'Brien Policy Exchange, accessed 2 October 2014
- ↑ Poppy Mitchell-Rose] LinkedIn profile, accessed 2 October 2014
