HISTORIC PRESS RELEASE : Head of Treasury enterprise and growth unit [June 1997]

The press release issued by HM Treasury on 12 June 1997.

Geoffrey Robinson, Paymaster General, today took the first step in creating a Treasury Enterprise and Growth Unit by  announcing the appointment of Harry Bush, a senior Treasury official, to head the team which will be working with the Paymaster and business on the development of policies to help promote growth and innovation.

Notes to Editors

1.   Increasing the sustainable rate of long-term growth is central to the Government`s economic policy.

2.   In his speech to the CBI the Chancellor announced that the Paymaster General will head a new Enterprise and Growth Unit within the Treasury.

3.   Growth is already a central part of the work of a number of  Treasury teams.  The  new Enterprise and Growth Unit will complement this and ensure that the whole Treasury puts promoting growth at the top of its agenda.  A biography of Mr Bush is
attached.

Biography

Harry Bush, age 43, was educated at Quintin Kynaston School (north London) and Merton and Nuffield Colleges (Oxford).  He joined the Treasury in 1979.  Since then he has worked in a number of areas including export credit policy, press office, defence expenditure control and nationalised industries.  Most recently he has been working with other departments, industries, the City and overseas governments on privatisation issues.  Mr Bush will be taking up his new post immediately on promotion to Deputy Director (Grade 3).