By Paul Dicken
26 June 2010
A former county council chief executive has been named as preferred candidate for auditor general for Wales.
Huw Vaughan Thomas was one of four shortlisted candidates interviewed by the Welsh Assembly Commission appointment panel, which included three members of the Public Accounts Committee.
On June 22, the Assembly panel announced that Vaughan Thomas was the preferred candidate to go before the full Public Accounts Committee and then on to approval by the full Assembly.
Vaughan Thomas said it would be a ‘great honour and privilege to be successfully appointed’.
Vaughan Thomas was chief executive of Denbighshire County Council in north Wales until 2001. Since then, he has run public and voluntary sector consultancy Taro and held a number of appointments, including chair of the Big Lottery Fund Wales.
Interim auditor general Gillian Body said staff at the Wales Audit Office would do all they could to support Vaughan Thomas in ‘what are challenging times for the public sector in Wales’.
26 June 2010
A former county council chief executive has been named as preferred candidate for auditor general for Wales.
Huw Vaughan Thomas was one of four shortlisted candidates interviewed by the Welsh Assembly Commission appointment panel, which included three members of the Public Accounts Committee.
On June 22, the Assembly panel announced that Vaughan Thomas was the preferred candidate to go before the full Public Accounts Committee and then on to approval by the full Assembly.
Vaughan Thomas said it would be a ‘great honour and privilege to be successfully appointed’.
Vaughan Thomas was chief executive of Denbighshire County Council in north Wales until 2001. Since then, he has run public and voluntary sector consultancy Taro and held a number of appointments, including chair of the Big Lottery Fund Wales.
Interim auditor general Gillian Body said staff at the Wales Audit Office would do all they could to support Vaughan Thomas in ‘what are challenging times for the public sector in Wales’.
