The Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor has appointed James Hayward as a Non-Executive Director to the GFSL board from 1 April 2020 for three years.
GFSL is part of the Ministry of Justice, set up in February 2018 as a limited, not for profit company. Its role is to provide facilities management (FM) services to the prisons in the South of England.
James is a Professional Chartered Engineer with 40+ years' experience, in medium and large sized acute NHS healthcare settings. He is currently semi-retired and is employed part time as a capital projects and infrastructure manager at York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust leading on a number of major capital projects. He is also the chairman of Beyond Housing and a Trustee of the First Light Trust.
James has declared no political activity.
