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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]
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 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]
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.
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.
Ethics are an accountability standard by which the public will scrutinize the work being conducted by the members of these organizations. The question of ethics emerges in the public sector on account of its subordinate character. Decisions are based upon ethical principles, which are the perception of what the general public would view as correct.
These are to report to the Prime Minister and Cabinet, and Cabinet approval is still required if collective agreement is needed. When the Prime Minister is unable to attend Cabinet or the chair and any deputy chair of a Cabinet committee are absent, the next most senior minister in the ministerial ranking should take the chair. [2]
Gray joined the Cabinet Office in the late 1990s, having previously worked at the departments of Health, Transport, and Work and Pensions. [17] [18] From 2012 she was director-general of the Propriety and Ethics team, and head of the Private Offices Group, directly under the Cabinet Secretary.