Deirdre Hutton
Dame Deirdre Mary Hutton
Early career
A former
Public appointments
Hutton has worked for over 10 major non-departmental public bodies in 30 years.[
She developed her career in championing consumer issues within public sector bodies, particularly in health and food standards and regulation, including: Chair of the Foresight Panel on the Food Chain and Crops for Industry; Chair of the Food Chain Centre; member of the 2001–2
Hutton was a non-executive Director of the Scottish Borders Health Board and a member of
For five years until 2005, she was Chair of the
During 2008, she was on the three-member panel that conducted an independent review of the postal services on behalf of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. Hutton was (2011–16) a non-executive Director of Castle Trust,[9] and non-executive member of the Treasury Board, and Thames Water.
Hutton is one of 32 Vice-Presidents of the Chartered Trading Standards Institute.
Appointed to the board of the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) as a non-executive director in April 2009,[10] Hutton was appointed chair in 2009 by Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon,[3] replacing Sir Roy McNulty;[11] she was paid £130,000 for two days' work a week in 2010,[12] which was still the case as of 2015, making her one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time.[13] She retired from the role in 2020.[14] On 1 August 2020, she was appointed as Chancellor of Cranfield University.[15]
Personal life
Deirdre Mary Cassells married Alasdair Henry Hutton in 1975 in Oxford.
Divorced[3] from Alasdair Hutton, former MEP, Hutton has two sons, Thomas and Nicholas Hutton. Her hobbies include gardening and chamber music.[1]
References
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- ^ a b "Dame Deirdre Hutton – queen of the quangos". The Daily Telegraph. 15 November 2009. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
- ^ a b c d e Auslan Cramb (21 April 2010). "Deirdre Hutton, CAA chairman: profile". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
- ^ "Report of the Policy Commission on the Future of Farming and Food" (PDF). National Archives. January 2002. p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 November 2009. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
- ^ "When losing your house could be the high price of loyalty - The Scotsman". Archived from the original on 16 January 2017.
- ^ "Highlands anger over SEPA board Not one of chosen six from the North". 21 September 1999.
- ^ Financial Services Authority, Government of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
- ^ "Changes to the Financial Services Authority Board". HM Treasury Archived 5 August 2012 at archive.today. Retrieved 12 June 2009.
- ^ "Home". castletrust.co.uk.
- ^ "CAA Board and Staff", Civil Aviation Authority
- ^ "Sir Roy McNulty Retires as UK CAA chairman". Civil Aviation Authority. Retrieved 26 January 2012. [permanent dead link]
- ^ Christopher Booker (5 June 2010). "Quangos: the more we pay, the less we get". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
- ^ "Senior officials 'high earners' salaries as at 30 September 2015". Government of the United Kingdom. 17 December 2015. Archived from the original on 4 May 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
- ^ "Sir Stephen Hillier to be chair of the CAA". ADS Advance. 7 May 2020. Archived from the original on 20 May 2020. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
- ^ "University Management: Dame Deirdre Hutton". Cranfield University. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
- ^ Ancestry.com
- ^ "Issue 55155, Supplement, Page 9". The London Gazette. HM Government. 15 June 1998. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
- ^ "Issue 57315, Supplement, Page 6". The London Gazette. HM Government. 12 June 2004. Retrieved 8 April 2016.