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The private secretary to the prime minister for foreign affairs is a senior official in the British Civil Service who acts as the private secretary for all matters concerning foreign policy and international affairs to the prime minister of the United Kingdom.
At the start of the 19th century, the foreign secretary would have had one or two private secretaries, who were often personal appointments of the office-holder.As the complexity of British foreign policy grew significantly, and consequently the size of the private office expanded to provide policy and administrative support; the chief civil servant in the private office became the principal ...
In 2006, he was appointed Deputy Private Secretary to Prince Charles and his wife, and he was promoted to Private Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to Their Royal Highnesses in 2009. In 2012, he took up an appointment as ambassador to Morocco and simultaneously non-resident ambassador to Mauritania. [4]
Other notable positions include the Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and the Private Secretary for Foreign Affairs to the Prime Minister. A Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) is a member of Parliament appointed to act as unpaid assistant to a minister, and should not be confused with ...
The Private Secretary at this time was not on the establishment of HM Treasury and he was not paid an official salary. This changed in 1806, when money was made available from public funds. In 1813 the funding available was doubled to enable a second private secretary to be employed, alongside the first (or 'principal') holder of the office. [2]
In 2002, Rycroft was appointed Private Secretary to Prime Minister Tony Blair, to advise him on matters related to foreign policy, the European Union, Northern Ireland and defence. During this time Rycroft wrote a letter to Mark Sedwill, private secretary to the foreign secretary, Jack Straw. The letter reveals that "we and the US would take ...
Pages in category "Principal Private Secretaries to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs" The following 56 pages are in this category, out of 56 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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.