Henry Bottomley

Employment: March 1996 to February 1998 (Previous Next)

Department of Trade and Industry, 1 Victoria Street, London SW1, UK

Assistant Director - Policy, Regional European Funds Directorate

Responsible for co-ordination of UK general policy position on Structural and Cohesion Funds. Examples of work include:

• briefing of Ministers and senior officials, and communications with UK parliament and local authorities;

• allocation of Objective 2 resources in UK for 1997-1999;

• preparation of UK position for reform of the Funds from 2000;

• selection of 10 UK pilot projects for territorial employment pacts;

• representation of UK at Commission chaired Cohesion Fund meetings, and at Trans-European Networks meetings;

• relevant relationships with DG16 and other Member States;

• managing three staff.