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Departments: Higher Civil Servants

Volume 460: debated on Thursday 24 May 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the members of the Department Board on (a) 6 May 2005, (b) 5 May 2006 and (c) at present; and what the job title is of each. (135886)

Membership of the Department's Management Board as of the dates requested is set out in the following table.

Membership of the Departmental Management Board

As of 6 May 2005

Sir Nigel Crisp

Permanent Secretary and Chief Executive of the National Health Service

Sir Liam Donaldson

Chief Medical Officer and Director of Health and Social Care Standards and Quality

John Bacon

Director of Health and Social Care Services Delivery

Hugh Taylor

Director of Health and Social Care Strategy and Business Development

Christine Beasley

Chief Nursing Officer and Director of Public Involvement and Patient

Richard Douglas

Director of Finance and Investment

Stephen O'Brien

Director of Strategy

Sian Jarvis

Director of Communications

As of 5 May 2006

Hugh Taylor

Acting Permanent Secretary

Sir Ian Carruthers

Acting Chief Executive of the NHS

Sir Liam Donaldson

Chief Medical Officer

Julie Baddeley

Non-Executive Director

Derek Myers

Non-Executive Director

Ken Anderson

Director General, Commercial

Christine Beasley

Chief Nursing Officer and Director of Patient and Public Involvement

Alan Doran

Acting Director General, Departmental Management

Richard Douglas

Director General, Finance and Investment

Margaret Edwards

Director General, Access

David Flory

Interim Director General, Financial Recovery

Richard Granger

Director General, NHS Connecting for Health

Nic Greenfield

Acting Director General, Workforce

Barbara Hakin

Acting Director General, Commissioning

Bill McCarthy

Acting Director General, Policy and Strategy

Duncan Selbie

Director General, Performance

Matt Tee

Interim Director General, Communications

At present (8 May 2007)

Hugh Taylor

Permanent Secretary

David Nicholson

Chief Executive of the NHS

Sir Liam Donaldson

Chief Medical Officer

Julie Baddeley

Non-Executive Director

Derek Myers

Non-Executive Director

Mike Wheeler

Non-Executive Director

Christine Beasley

Chief Nursing Officer and Director General, Experience, Involvement and Professional Leadership

David Behan

Director General, Social Care

Andrew Cash

Director General, Provider Development

Clare Chapman

Director General, Workforce

Alan Doran

Director General, Departmental Management

Richard Douglas

Director General, Finance and Investment

Ivan Ellul

Acting Director General, Commissioning

Richard Granger

Director General, NHS Connecting for Health

Una O'Brien

Acting Director General, Policy and Strategy

Michael Seitz

Acting Director General, Commercial

Matt Tee

Interim Director General, Communications