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Darren Christopher Tierney (born 29 January 1975) [1] is a British civil servant, serving since 2023 in the Cabinet Office as the director-general for propriety and constitution group. [2] From 2021–2023, he was director-general for propriety and ethics. [2]
The Cabinet Secretary is responsible for clearing ministers' financial matters. [9] The Code is currently administered by the Propriety and Ethics group within the Cabinet Office. [10] The Code is periodically updated. The 2015 update removed the explicit requirement that ministers comply with international law and treaty obligations. [11]
The Committee on Standards in Public Life is an independent advisory non-departmental public body, [1] with a secretariat and budget provided by the Cabinet Office.The committee advises and makes recommendations to the prime minister on ethical standards in public life. [2]
The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT), also known unofficially as the "Nudge Unit", is a UK-based global social purpose organisation that generates and applies behavioural insights to inform policy and improve public services, following nudge theory. [1]
The Behavioural Insights Team is an organisation spun out of the UK Cabinet Office, which applies a deep understanding of human behaviour and evidence-led problem solving to improve government, public policy and public services.
The Cabinet Office is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom. It is responsible for supporting the prime minister and Cabinet . [ 3 ] It is composed of various units that support Cabinet committees and coordinate the delivery of government objectives via other departments.
Helen MacNamara CB is a British former civil servant, who served as the Deputy Cabinet Secretary in the Cabinet Office from 2020 to 2021. She had previously worked as Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet from January 2019 and was Director General for Propriety and Ethics in 2018.
Political ethics (also known as political morality or public ethics) is the practice of making moral judgments about political action and political agents. [1] It covers two areas: the ethics of process (or the ethics of office), which covers public officials and their methods, [2] [3] and the ethics of policy (or ethics and public policy), which concerns judgments surrounding policies and laws.