Editing David Willetts (section)

==Policy researcher==
Having served as [[Nigel Lawson]]'s private researcher,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Aitkenhead|first1=Decca|title=David Willetts: 'Many more will go to university than in my generation – we must not reverse that'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/nov/20/david-willetts-university-student-loans-debt|access-date=9 March 2016|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=20 November 2011}}</ref> Willetts took charge of the [[HM Treasury|Treasury]] [[monetary policy]] division at 26 before moving over to [[Margaret Thatcher]]'s [[Number 10 Policy Unit|Policy Unit]] at 28. He subsequently took over the [[Centre for Policy Studies]], aged 31.<ref>{{cite news |author=Alice Thomson |date=13 March 2004 |title=Willetts takes 'two pensions' Blair to task |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1456725/Willetts-takes-two-pensions-Blair-to-task.html |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|location=London |access-date=5 June 2011}}</ref>

[[Paul Foot (journalist)|Paul Foot]] wrote in ''[[Private Eye]]'' that in a 1993 document called ''The Opportunities for Private Funding in the NHS'', published by the [[Social Market Foundation]] and financed by private healthcare company [[BUPA]], Willetts provided the "intellectual thrust" for [[Private finance initiative#National Health Service (NHS)|private finance initiatives (PFIs) in the National Health Service]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Foot|first1=Paul|author-link1=Paul Foot (journalist)|title=P. F. Eye: An idiot's guide to the Private Finance Initiative|url=http://drphilhammond.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/PFI-Report-Private-Eye-2004.pdf|access-date=9 March 2016|work=[[Private Eye]]|issue=1102|date=19 March 2004|page=1|archive-date=22 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150922224750/http://drphilhammond.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/PFI-Report-Private-Eye-2004.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>