About Us

The Delivery Authority

The Delivery Authority was incorporated to design and deliver the R&R Programme for the Palace restoration and related works on behalf of the Houses of Parliament.

The Delivery Authority has engaged a team of architects, engineers, project managers and contractors who will shape the future direction of the work, which is the biggest and most complex renovation of a heritage building ever undertaken in the UK.
Tanya Coff

Tanya Coff, Interim CEO

Tanya is currently serving as interim CEO. Prior to this role, Tanya was the Chief Financial Officer. 

Tanya was previously at Transport for London where she was Finance and Procurement Director for London Underground and TfL Rail. Tanya was responsible for delivering change programmes to modernise the tube and before that was responsible for the finances of London Underground’s capital programme of around £1bn per year, covering fleet, signalling and station upgrades. Prior to TfL, Tanya was Head of Finance Operations for Heathrow Airport where she was responsible for all terminal and airside finances as well as Heathrow’s capital programme.

Meet our Executive Team

Andy Haynes

Andy Haynes, Commercial Director

Andy held a number of senior commercial roles at Network Rail, has most recently been Procurement Director at Heathrow Airport, and has over twenty five years’ experience transforming supply chains, collaborating to deliver major capital programmes and working with suppliers to create sustainable solutions. Andy was Network Rail’s Finance and Commercial Director for Reading Station, Crossrail On-Network Works and Great Western Route Modernisation for six years before being Project Director for the West of England area, which included the largest track and signalling projects delivered by Network Rail.

Andy Piper

Andy Piper, Design and Engineering Director

Andy is an experienced Chartered Engineer with overall accountability for technical assurance of all design workstreams. He has a deep understanding of the Palace of Westminster and Parliament, with over 10 years’ experience working on the Parliamentary Estate. Prior to this, he worked for an international engineering and consultancy practice, managing the work of multi-disciplinary teams across a number of public sector building frameworks.

Catherine Murphy

Catherine Murphy, Interim Finance Director

Catherine is currently serving as Interim Finance Director and, prior to that, was the Delivery Authority's Head of Finance since 2021. She is an experienced finance professional and chartered accountant with a career leading finance teams across a number of public sector organisations. She also has prior experience supporting a number of large-scale infrastructure projects as part of the Infrastructure & Government team at KPMG.

Janet Campbell

Janet Campbell, HR Director

Janet was the HR Director at Ofcom (the UK’s communications regulator) for over 10 years until September 2017, and played a pivotal role in establishing Ofcom and completing the merger of the 5 predecessor regulators. At Ofcom, Janet was responsible for leading the HR function and ensuring that the People Strategy was aligned to the delivery of Ofcom’s business and cultural objectives. Since then, Janet has been an interim HR Director, working with organisations across the private and public sector to develop and implement HR strategy, latterly as interim Director of People at ACAS. Janet is also a non-executive director on the Board of Hillingdon Hospitals Foundation Trust.

Jane Mee

Jane Mee, General Counsel

Jane brings great experience in advising organisations through all stages of major project delivery in both public and private sectors, most recently as General Counsel at Hitachi Rail, and formerly at London Underground, where she led the legal function through a period of major infrastructure upgrades. Jane has also had previous similar leadership roles at Bombardier and WSP. Jane has extensive governance and compliance experience and has previously held company secretary and board director roles. In her current post, she leads the Delivery Authority's Data & Digital team. 

Matt White

Matthew White, Programme Director

Matthew White was previously Surface Director at Crossrail Ltd responsible for leading the multi-billion pound programme to enhance the existing railway network.  He has prior experience running major projects in the petro-chemical, high-speed rail and aviation sectors. Matthew is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Janet Coull Trisic

Janet Coull Trisic, Communications and External Affairs Director (job share)

Prior to the Delivery Authority, Janet and Sophia have job shared as Head of Communications at the UK Supreme Court where they were responsible for promoting public understanding of the Court and its decisions, leading the media and communications function, and managing all education, outreach, and public engagement programmes.

Janet has spent the majority of her career as a public sector communications professional, having worked in communications at several government departments, the House of Commons, and other public bodies. She has worked at both Deputy Director and Director level in roles featuring media, digital, internal, stakeholder and corporate communications.

Sophia Linehan-Biggs

Sophia Linehan Biggs, Communications and External Affairs Director (job share)

Sophia is an experienced communications leader with a career spanning both the public and third sectors. She brings with her a wealth of experience, having held senior roles in the House of Commons and the UK Supreme Court.