Professor David Heald
Contributions
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- David Heald
was specialist adviser to the Treasury
Committee of the House of Commons from 1989 to 2010, assisting it on matters
relating to Supply Estimates, government accounting and public
expenditure.
- David Heald has been appointed as a member of the Technical
Advisory Group which advises the Audit Commission on
accounting and auditing developments.
- David Heald
has been appointed a member of the Research
Advisory Board of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in
England and Wales. This body is responsible for the research
programme funded by ICAEW's charitable trusts and organises the
annual “Information for Better Markets” conference.
- David Heald served a five-year term as a member of the Financial
Reporting Advisory Board for the period 1 August 2004 to 31
July 2009, having been nominated as an independent economist by
the Head of the Government Economic Service.
- From July 2002 to July 2008, David Heald was specialist
adviser to the Public Accounts Commission, with regard to its role
in approving the Corporate Plan and Supply Estimate of the
National Audit Office. He resigned this role so that he could
publicly oppose legislative proposals to change the governance of
the National Audit Office by establishing the NAO as a corporate
body with a Chair and Non-Executive Director majority. He has
contributed articles on this matter to Public
Finance, Public
(the montly magazine published by the Guardian) and Public
Money & Management
- David Heald contributed to the 'Round
Table on the Budget Process' on 10 June 2008 held by the
Finance Committee of the Scottish Parliament.
- David Heald gave oral
evidence in Edinburgh on 4 May 2004 to the Finance Committee
of the Scottish Parliament on 'Budget Process 2005-06'.
- David Heald gave oral
evidence in Edinburgh on 16 May 2002 to the House of Lords
Select Committee on the Constitution, chaired by Professor
The Lord Norton of Louth. This was part of its inquiry into
‘Devolution: inter-institutional relations in the United Kingdom’.
His written
evidence concerns financial relationships between the UK
Government and the Devolved Administrations, including the future
of the Barnett formula.
- David Heald produced a report on the funding of the Northern
Ireland Assembly, which was presented at a conference in Belfast
on 13 March 2003. His Report was
published by the Northern Ireland
Economic Council, the predecessor organisation of the Economic Research Institute for
Northern Ireland. This research was co-funded by NIEC and the
Department of Finance and
Personnel.
- Along side Ken Wild (partner in Deloitte and a member of
the Financial Reporting Advisory Board), David Heald gave evidence
to the Treasury Committee on 7 March 2000, strongly supporting the
Treasury's plan to go ahead with the 2001-02 implementation date
for Resource Accounting, notwithstanding the proposal of the then
Comptroller & Auditor General for a one-year postponement.
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