Departmental Finance Directors

Chris Huhne
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the (a) name, (b) professional and academic qualifications and (c) relevant experience are of the finance director of her Department.

Mr. Ivan Lewis
Richard Douglas is the Department director general of finance and investment.

He was appointed in May 2001. This is his third spell with the Department following a secondment from the NAO between 1990 and 1992 and three years as deputy director of finance from 1996. Immediately prior to his return to the Department he was finance director for national savings.

He is a graduate of Hull university and he started his career in public sector finance with the National Audit Office where he qualified as an accountant (CIPFA) in 1983.