AQW 12475/22-27

Ms Paula Bradshaw
Alliance Party
South Belfast

Tabled Date: 23/05/2024
Answered On Date: 04/06/2024
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Finance for an update on the establishment of a Public Service Transformation Board.

Answer:

On 9 May, the Executive agreed my proposed approach for making quick progress on the use of £235m of ring-fenced funding for transformation.

I have now established, and appointed members to, an interim Public Sector Transformation Board. The interim Board is chaired by the Head of the Civil Service, Jayne Brady, and includes Professor Frances Ruane, an independent Non-Executive member of the NICS Board, and who was previously Director of the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin. Julie Harrison, NIO Permanent Secretary, will also join the interim Board having been nominated by the Secretary of State.

The interim Board is working at pace and issued a call for Departments to submit transformation proposals on 31 May. Once assessed, the interim Board will make recommendations to me as Finance Minister.

I look forward to considering these recommendations and making progress on the transformation that is so urgently needed in our public services.