I am answering this question for the Crown Prosecution Service, the Treasury Solicitor’s Department, the Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office and the Serious Fraud Office.
The finance director of the Crown Prosecution Service is Mr. John Graham. He has a BA and MA in economics. He has extensive experience as a finance director and has fulfilled this role since 1999.
The finance director of the Treasury Solicitor’s Department is Tony Hindley. He is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). He was appointed on 1 May 2003. He was previously head of corporate planning for Defence Scientific and Technology Laboratory. Other positions previously held include financial controller and company secretary at Defence Evaluation and Research Agency where he was also a member of the board of management; finance director at British Nuclear Fuels plc. (UK Group) and financial controller and member of the sector board at BNFL.
The head of resources and planning of the Serious Fraud Office is Bob Evans. This role incorporates the responsibility of a finance director. He is an MA (Gonville and Caius college, Cambridge) and Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. He is currently studying for membership of CIMA and ACMA. He was appointed in November 2005. Previously he was a member of HM Treasury for 15 years. He has also served as a financial supervisor with the Bank of England and the Financial Services Authority, as economic adviser for the Ministry of Defence and has managed several large financial programmes and Government projects.
The head of finance for the Revenue and Customs Prosecution Office (RCPO) is Justin Freebairn. He holds an MA in Logic and Moral Philosophy (St. Andrews) and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. He was appointed in March 2006 following a number of senior finance positions both within and outside central Government.