Performance Tracker Advisory Group

The Performance Tracker Advisory Group has been established to:

1. help shape the scope of the annual Performance Tracker report
2. help generate and test ideas for possible shorter reports
3. provide oversight, advice and challenge on the conduct of the research, including the methods and approaches used
4. highlight and discuss and, if possible, resolve, ethical considerations that emerge in the course of the research
5. quality assure analytical approaches and interpretation
6. comment on and quality assure published reports
7. help identify implications for policy and practice
8. help shape and advise on communication and dissemination of project outputs and findings
9. identify areas or issues on which the research team needs to seek external advice, whether that is from the Nuffield Foundation as funder, or from the research, policy or practice communities.  

Membership of the advisory group does not imply support of the analysis and recommendations made in associated reports. Members provide advice, but the views contained in publications belong to the authors alone.  

Current members of the advisory group:

• Stephen Aldridge, Director of Analysis and Data, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Jon Coles, Chief Executive Officer, United Learning
• Mark Franks, Director of Welfare, Nuffield Foundation
• Justine Greening, Former Education Secretary                      
• Patricia  Hewitt, Former Health Secretary                
• Richard Heys, Deputy Chief Economist, Office for National Statistics
• Ruth Kelly, Chief Analyst, National Audit Office
• Alison McKenzie Folan, Chief Executive Officer, Wigan Council
• Stephen Powis, National Medical Director, NHS England
• Richard Price, Director General, Performance, Strategy and Analysis Group, Ministry of Justice  
• Conrad Smewing, Director General Public Spending, HM Treasury
• George  Stoye, Associate Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies
• Arpana Verma, Clinical Professor of Public health and Epidemiology, and Co-Director of Policy@Manchester, University of Manchester