Public Service

Andrew Edwards spent most of his career as a Treasury official, working on a variety of subjects including

• the devaluation of the pound in 1967,

• fiscal and monetary policy,

• the balance of payments,

• the introduction of GCSEs (on secondment to the Department of Education & Science),

• the EU Budget (including the UK rebate),

• local authority finance (including replacement of the Community Charge with Council Tax), and,

• as a Deputy Secretary (Director-General) and Chairman of the Whitehall Finance Directors’ Committee, public expenditure planning and control.

 

After leaving the Treasury in 1995, he worked on the Greenbury Review of Directors’ pay and led three extended public sector reviews, on

• Financial Regulation in the Crown Dependencies,

• the British Museum and

• the Land Registry,

while also advising several overseas countries on public sector reform, notably the re-tasking of finance ministries in countries of the Former Soviet Union. He then served for some years as a leader of Government Gateway reviews of major public sector programmes and projects, before retiring in 2014.