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Llanwarne is currently Chief Actuary, pensions at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He will head the Government Actuary's Department leading 100 staff, providing independent, professional actuarial advice to government and public sector organisations.

The Government Actuary's Department (GAD) provides specialist actuarial advice to government and public services in the UK and overseas.

Trevor Llanwarne, 54, joined PwC in 1987 and has been a partner since 1992. He is currently the firm's Chief Actuary for pensions, responsible for quality and risk and has also acted as adviser to PwC and many schemes and sponsors large and small on all pensions matters. Prior to joining PwC, Trevor spent 10 years working for Sun Life Assurance Society.

Llanwarne succeeds Chris Daykin as the Government Actuary and will take up his appointment in the Spring of 2008, on a five year contract.

Performance 

The Treasury also announced that the Prime Minister and Chancellor has appointed Ray Shostak as Head of the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit and Director General of Performance at the Treasury, after an open competition. He will take up his appointment with immediate effect.

The role of the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit (PMDU) is to promote effective delivery of the Government's priorities for public services. The PMDU is based in the Treasury and reports jointly to the Prime Minister and the Chancellor, working closely with departments on the critical priorities and actions needed to strengthen delivery across government, and on the reform of public services. Ray Shostak succeeds Ian Watmore as Head of the PMDU, following his appointment in June as Permanent Secretary to the Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills.

Ray Shostak CBE, 58, has been Director of Public Services since joining the Treasury in 2003. He has worked on a wide variety of public services and spending control issues, including reforms to the framework of Public Service Agreements and a new performance framework for local government and a range of internal and cross-governmental projects, including policy development and reviews of housing and planning reform, the Olympics, childcare, education and public service inspection.

Prior to joining the Treasury, Mr. Shostak was Director of Children, Schools and Families at Hertfordshire County Council, where he set up the first fully integrated Children's Service in local government, bringing together education, social care, youth justice and health issues. He has also worked in a number of posts in education and local government, including as a teacher in the USA and in England.

Second Permanent Secretary

The Prime Minister, on the recommendation of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, appointed John Kingman as Second Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury, in recognition of his work on public services, enterprise, productivity and economic growth. Mr. Kingman will remain the Managing Director of Public Services and Growth at the Treasury. His appointment to Second Permanent Secretary takes place with immediate effect.

John Kingman, 38, is currently Managing Director of the Treasury's Public Services and Growth Directorate. Previous Treasury roles include Managing Director of Finance and Industry, Director of the Enterprise and Growth Unit, Head of Productivity & Structural Reform and Press Secretary to the Chancellor.

After periods in the Treasury and the Department for National Heritage in the early 1990s, Mr. Kingman spent two years on the Financial Times' Lex column and also worked in the Chief Executive's office at BP. In 2004 he spent four months as a World Fellow of Yale University. He succeeds Jon Cunliffe as the Treasury's Second Permanent Secretary, following Jon's appointment in June as Head of International Economic Affairs and Europe in the Cabinet Office.

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