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Permanent Under-Secretary Of State For The Home Department
The Permanent Under-Secretary of State of the Home Office is the permanent secretary of the Home Office, the most senior civil servant in the department, charged with running its affairs on a day-to-day basis. Home Office Permanent Secretaries * March 1782: J. Bell * December 1791: John King * February 1806 – 1817: John Beckett aron_Grimthorpe.html"_;"title="ater_Baron_Grimthorpe">Sir_John_Beckett,_Bart. *_June_1817_–_1827:_Henry_Hobhouse_(archivist).html" "title="Baron Grimthorpe">Sir John Beckett, Bart.">aron_Grimthorpe.html" ;"title="ater Baron Grimthorpe">Sir John Beckett, Bart. * June 1817 – 1827: Henry Hobhouse (archivist)">Henry Hobhouse * July 1827 – 1848: Samuel March Phillipps * 1848–1867: Horatio Waddington * 1867–1885: (Sir) Adolphus Frederick Octavius Liddell * June 1885: Sir H. Maine * July 1885 – 1895: Sir Godfrey Lushington * 1895–1903: Sir Kenelm Edward Digby, Kenelm Digby * 1903–1908: Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Chalmers * 1908–1922: Sir Edward ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Permanent Secretary
A permanent secretary (also known as a principal secretary) is the most senior Civil Service (United Kingdom), civil servant of a department or Ministry (government department), ministry charged with running the department or ministry's day-to-day activities. Permanent secretaries are the non-political civil service Chief executive officer, chief executives of government departments or ministries, who generally hold their position for a number of years (thus "permanent") at a ministry as distinct from the changing political secretaries of state to whom they report and provide advice. Country Australia In Australia, the position is called the "department secretary", “secretary of the department”, or “director-general of the department” in some states and territories. Barbados Canada In Canada, the senior civil service position is a "deputy minister", who within a government ministry or department is outranked only by a Minister (government), Minister of the Crown. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Peterson (civil Servant)
Sir Arthur William Peterson KCB MVO (22 May 1916 - 8 May 1986) was a British civil servant who served as Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office. Career Born in Calcutta, Peterson was educated at Shrewsbury School and Merton College, Oxford. He was the younger brother of Alec Peterson, the educational reformer. Peterson joined the civil service in 1938. During the First World War, he served in the Ministry of Home Security. He served as principal private secretary to the Home Secretary, 1946–1949. In 1957, Peterson was a special adviser to Rab Butler, whilst Butler was Home Secretary. Peterson also served as Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office, 1972–77. He was Chairman of the British Refugee Council in 1981. Honours * Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 1953 * Companion of the Order of the Bath, 1963 * Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Permanent Under-Secretary Of State For Foreign Affairs
This is a list of Permanent Under-Secretaries in the British Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (and its predecessors) since 1790. Not to be confused with Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Permanent Under-Secretaries at the Foreign Office, 1790 to present These are the Permanent Secretaries or senior civil servants at the Foreign Office. *February 1790: George Aust *October 1795: George Hammond (resigned 1806) *March 1807: George Hammond *October 1809: William Richard Hamilton *July 1817: Joseph Planta *April 1827: John Backhouse *1842: Henry Unwin Addington *1854: Edmund Hammond (later Lord Hammond) *1873: Lord Tenterden *1882: Sir Julian Pauncefote (later Lord Pauncefote) *1889: Sir Philip Currie (later Lord Currie) *1894: Sir Thomas Sanderson (later Lord Sanderson) *1906: Sir Charles Hardinge (later Lord Hardinge of Penshurst) *1910: Sir Arthur Nicolson (later Lord Carnock) *1916: Lord Hardinge of Penshurst *1920: Sir Eyr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Rycroft
Sir Matthew John Rycroft (; born 16 June 1968) is a British civil servant and diplomat serving as Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office since 2020, appointed following the resignation of Sir Philip Rutnam. Rycroft previously served as Permanent Secretary at the Department for International Development (DFID) from 2018 to 2020 and as the Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York from 2015 to 2018. Early life and education Rycroft was born in Southampton, before moving to Cambridge at the age of eleven. He studied mathematics and philosophy at Merton College, Oxford. Career Rycroft joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) after graduation, in 1989. Following short spells in Geneva and on the NATO desk in Whitehall, Rycroft spent four years at the British embassy in Paris. In 1995–96, Rycroft was Head of Section in the Eastern Adriatic Unit at the FCO: a demanding role, given the aftermath of the Yugoslav Wars. Very soon after taking up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Rutnam
Sir Philip McDougall Rutnam, (born 19 June 1965) is a British former civil servant who served as Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office from 2017 until his resignation on 29 February 2020. Prior to this, he was the Permanent Secretary at the Department for Transport for five years and also Acting Permanent Secretary at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in 2010. Rutnam is currently Chair of the National Churches Trust, the UK's national conservation charity for churches, chapels and meeting houses open for worship. He is also a Council Member of the University of Surrey and a Non-Executive Director of Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, where he chairs the partnership to redevelop the Warneford Hospital site as Oxford's new centre for treatment and research linked to brain science and mental health. After Rutnam resigned from the Government in February 2020, he began legal action against the Home Office for constructive dismissal. As a consequenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Sedwill
Mark Philip Sedwill, Baron Sedwill, (born 21 October 1964) is a British diplomat and senior civil servant who served as Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service to Prime Ministers Theresa May and Boris Johnson from 2018 to 2020. He also served as the United Kingdom National Security Adviser from 2017 to 2020. He was previously the United Kingdom's Ambassador to Afghanistan from 2009 to 2010 and the NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan in 2010. He was the Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office from February 2013 to April 2017. Early life and education Sedwill was born in Ealing. He attended Bourne Grammar School in Bourne, Lincolnshire, becoming the head boy. He went to the University of St Andrews, where he gained a Bachelor of Science (BSc), and later gained a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in economics from St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Career Early diplomatic career Sedwill joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1989 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Kilpatrick
Helen Marjorie Kilpatrick (born 9 October 1958) is a British civil servant. She was Governor of the Cayman Islands between 2013 and 2018. Career Kilpatrick was educated at King's College, Cambridge. She began her career in local government in England, qualifying as a Public Finance Accountant. She was appointed Group Auditor at the Greater London Council in 1985, going through various local government positions, including Controller of Financial Services at Greenwich London Borough Council from 1989-1995. In 1995 she was appointed to be the County Treasurer of West Sussex County Council West Sussex County Council (WSCC) is the authority that governs the non-metropolitan county of West Sussex. The county also contains seven district and borough councils, and 158 town, parish and neighbourhood councils. The county council has 7 ..., a position she held for ten years. She was also Deputy Chief Executive. In 2005 she was appointed by the Home Office to be Director General ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Ghosh
Dame Helen Frances Ghosh, Order of the Bath, DCB (; ; Kirkby; born 21 February 1956) is a former British civil servant who has been Master of Balliol College, Oxford since 2018. She was previously Director-General of the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty from November 2012 to April 2018. From 1979 to 2012 she was a British civil servant. She was Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office, Permanent Secretary at the Home Office from January 2011 to November 2012, and prior to that was Permanent Secretary at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) from November 2005 to the end of 2010. On appointment at DEFRA, she was the only female permanent secretary to head a major department of the British Government. Early life and education Ghosh was born Helen Frances Kirkby in Farnborough, Hampshire, in 1956, daughter of William Kirkby, a civil service scientist, and his wife, Eileen (née Howe), a librarian. She was educat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Normington
Sir David John Normington, (born 18 October 1951) is a retired British civil servant. He served as the Permanent Secretary of the Department for Education and Skills from 2001 to 2005, and then of the Home Office until 2011. From 2011 until 2016 he served as both the First Civil Service Commissioner and the Commissioner for Public Appointments for the British government. Career Normington attended Bradford Grammar School. A graduate of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Normington's career began in the Department of Employment. There he was responsible variously for the previous Government’s programme of trade union reform, for measures to reduce unemployment, and for youth training. He was Principal Private Secretary to Tom King, Secretary of State for Employment in 1983 and 1984. He was also responsible for co-ordinating the efforts of central Government to regenerate the seven most deprived London boroughs. In 1995, when the Department of Employment and Department of Educ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gieve
Sir Edward John Watson Gieve, (born 20 February 1950) is a former British civil servant, who served as Deputy Governor for Financial Stability of the Bank of England and an ''ex officio'' member of the Monetary Policy Committee from 2006 to 2009. Permanent Secretary at the Home Office Gieve served as Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office from 2001 to 2005. At the time, the Home Office was the government department responsible for law and order, including prisons and probation, policing, oversight of MI5, and immigration and nationality matters. As Permanent Secretary, Gieve was in charge of the Department's administrative functions and its civil servants, working to the Ministerial team headed by the Home Secretary. During Gieve's tenure at the Home Office, there were three Home Secretaries; Jack Straw (until 2001), David Blunkett (2001–2004), and Charles Clarke (from 2004). Blunkett was obliged to resign from government after a scandal involving accusations o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Omand
Sir David Bruce Omand (born 15 April 1947) is a British former senior civil servant who served as the Director of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) from 1996 to 1997. Background Omand was born on 15 April 1947. His father, Bruce, was a Justice of the Peace. Omand was educated at Glasgow Academy and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, receiving an economics degree. Career Omand began his career at GCHQ.Aldrich, David, ''GCHQ'', Harper Press, 2010, , p.495 After working for the Ministry of Defence for a number of years, Omand was appointed Director of GCHQ from 1996 to 1997. His next post was Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office. Omand was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 2000 New Year Honours. In 2002 he became the first Permanent Secretary and Security and Intelligence Co-ordinator in the Cabinet Office. Omand was among those who decided that David Kelly should be pursued for talking to the media about the G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Wilson, Baron Wilson Of Dinton
Richard Thomas James Wilson, Baron Wilson of Dinton, (born 11 October 1942) is a crossbench member of the British House of Lords and former Cabinet Secretary. Career Richard Wilson was born in Glamorgan. He was educated at Radley College (1956–60 and where he much later chaired the College Council (the governing body)) and Clare College, Cambridge (1961–65), where he was awarded the degree of Master of Laws (LLM). He was called to the Bar but, rather than practice, entered the Civil Service as an assistant principal in the Board of Trade in 1966. He subsequently served in a number of departments including 12 years in the Department of Energy where his responsibilities included nuclear power policy, the privatisation of Britoil, personnel and finance. He headed the Economic Secretariat in the Cabinet Office under Margaret Thatcher from 1987 to 1990 and after two years in the Treasury was appointed Permanent Secretary of the Department of the Environment in 1992. He beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
