Sir Edward Peter Kemp, KCB (10 October 1934 – 24 June 2008), commonly known as Peter Kemp, was an English civil servant. Kemp was educated at

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, which he left in 1949. An early career in the Royal Navy was cut short by illness and he followed this up with work as an accountant. Kemp entered the civil service in 1967; promoted to deputy secretary at HM Treasury in 1983, in 1988 he was made Second

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at in the

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at the

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(in 1992, this became the

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); in the role, he had responsibility for implementing the '' Next Steps'' reforms which separated administrative and policy work from delivery by creating government agencies. He left the civil service in 1992."Sir Peter Kemp"
''The Independent'', 18 July 2008. Retrieved 11 August 2021.

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