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SaltHilary Salt
Founder
First Actuarial
Hilary Salt is a Founder of First Actuarial LLP and combines national executive responsibilities in the business with running the Manchester office.
Hilary provides funding advice to pension scheme trustees and employers. She also works with trade unions assisting in negotiations on pensions issues. She has worked extensively with the Communication Workers Union devising the ground-breaking CDC proposal which ended their dispute with Royal Mail. She has also advised UCU on alternative approaches to the valuation of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS). Hilary provides policy advice to a number of organisations and is the independent actuarial adviser to the NHS Pension Scheme’s Scheme Advisory Board.
She is a member of the council of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.
She has written a number of published articles and is a regular speaker at conferences.
Hilary has two grown up sons, a lovingly tended garden, a VW campervan and a season ticket to Old Trafford.
PEOPLE
DEBATING MATTERS HISTORY
Championship: Salford 2018
DEBATE: HS2
Championship: Liverpool 2018
DEBATE: Medical data sharing
Regional Final: North West & North Wales 2016/17
DEBATE: Plain packaging
Regional Final: North West & North Wales 2016/17
DEBATE: Water scarcity
Qualifying Round: Blackburn 2016/17
DEBATE: Historical monuments
Qualifying Round: Blackburn 2016/17
DEBATE: Artificial Intelligence
Qualifying Round: Blackburn 2016/17
DEBATE: Political Parties
National FInal: National Final 2015/16
DEBATE: Free speech on social Media
Regional Final: North West & North Wales 2015/16
DEBATE: Trident
Regional Final: North West & North Wales 2015/16
DEBATE: Sugar
Berlin: DM Berlin 2015
DEBATE: DM Berlin: Offence
Berlin: DM Berlin 2015
DEBATE: DM Berlin: Gentrification
Berlin: DM Berlin 2015
DEBATE: DM Berlin: Doping in Sport
National FInal: National Final 2014/15
DEBATE: Assisted Dying
National FInal: National Final 2014/15
DEBATE: Libraries
Qualifying Round: North Wales 2015/16
DEBATE: Religious Freedom
Qualifying Round: North Wales 2015/16
DEBATE: Compulsory Vaccinations
Qualifying Round: North Wales 2015/16
DEBATE: HS2
Qualifying Round: Blackburn 2015/16
DEBATE: Compulsory Vaccinations
Qualifying Round: Blackburn 2015/16
DEBATE: Religious Freedom
Regional Final: North West & North Wales 2014/15
DEBATE: Space Exploration
Regional Final: North West & North Wales 2014/15
DEBATE: Offence
Qualifying Round: North Wales 2014/15
DEBATE: European Union
Qualifying Round: North Wales 2014/15
DEBATE: Libraries
Regional Final: North West & North Wales 2013/14
DEBATE: Animal Experimentation
Qualifying Round: Cheshire 2013/14
DEBATE: Sex Selection
Qualifying Round: Cheshire 2013/14
DEBATE: Social media
National FInal: National Final 2012/13
DEBATE: European Union
National FInal: National Final 2012/13
DEBATE: Trade not Aid
Regional Final: North West & North Wales 2012/13
DEBATE: Environmental Sustainability
Regional Final: North West & North Wales 2012/13
DEBATE: Regulation of the Media
Qualifying Round: Manchester 2012/13
DEBATE: Copyright and the Arts
Qualifying Round: Manchester 2012/13
DEBATE: Boozy Britain
Qualifying Round: Cumbria 2011/12
DEBATE: Supermarkets
Qualifying Round: Cumbria 2011/12
DEBATE: Media Regulation
Qualifying Round: Lancashire 2011/12
DEBATE: GM Food
Qualifying Round: Lancashire 2011/12
DEBATE: Scottish Independence
Qualifying Round: Lancashire 2011/12
DEBATE: Supermarkets
Regional Final: North West & North Wales 2010/11
DEBATE: Smart Drugs
Regional Final: North West & North Wales 2010/11
DEBATE: Happiness
Qualifying Round: Blackburn 2010/11
DEBATE: Monarchy
Qualifying Round: Blackburn 2010/11
DEBATE: Scepticism and Science
Qualifying Round: Manchester 2010/11
DEBATE: Organ and Tissue Donation
Qualifying Round: Manchester 2010/11
DEBATE: Sportspeople as Role Models
Qualifying Round: Northamptonshire 2010/11
DEBATE: Genetic Screening
Qualifying Round: Northamptonshire 2010/11
DEBATE: Privacy Online
Regional Final: North West & North Wales 2009/10
DEBATE: Copenhagen
Regional Final: North West & North Wales 2009/10
DEBATE: MPs expenses
Qualifying Round: Staffordshire 2009/10
DEBATE: Older Mums
Qualifying Round: Merseyside 2009/10
DEBATE: BNP
Qualifying Round: Merseyside 2009/10
DEBATE: Boxing
Regional Final: North West & North Wales 2008/09
DEBATE: The Internet
Regional Final: North West & North Wales 2008/09
DEBATE: Drugs in sport
Qualifying Round: Staffordshire 2008/09
DEBATE: No Platform
Qualifying Round: Staffordshire 2008/09
DEBATE: Animal Experimentation
Qualifying Round: Blackburn & Wigan 2008/09
DEBATE: Sport and Competition
Qualifying Round: Blackburn & Wigan 2008/09
DEBATE: Animal Experimentation
Qualifying Round: Merseyside & Cheshire 2008/09
DEBATE: Private Lives
Qualifying Round: Merseyside & Cheshire 2008/09
DEBATE: Space Exploration
UPCOMING EVENTS
Thursday 27 June:
Oxfordshire Championship at Oxford Union, in partnership with Magdalen College School and Oxford Festival of Arts
Friday 5 July:
North East Championship at Durham Sixth Form Centre
CHAMPIONSHIP ARCHIVE
Find a list of all our previous championship events here.
SUPPORT DEBATING MATTERS
Bernie Whelan, our DM coordinator, is raising money for Debating Matters.
To stage one of our Championships for six to 12 teams costs £6,000. Find out more on Bernie’s
Wonderful fundraising page.
