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All senior grades (Deputy Director / Grade 5 level and above) are part of the senior civil service, which is overseen by the Cabinet Office on behalf of the civil service as a whole. Below the senior civil service, each individual department/executive agency can put in place its own grading and pay arrangements, provided they still comply with ...
When Lord Grey took office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1830, Sir John Barrow was especially requested to continue serving as Secretary in his department (the Admiralty), starting the principle that senior civil servants stay in office on change of government and serve in a non-partisan manner. It was during Barrow's occupancy of ...
The Civil Service Code is a set of regulations that govern the conduct of civil servants in the UK. [5] The regulations are broadly based on the Seven Principles of Public Life . [ 6 ] First introduced in 2006 and later updated in 2015, the code has four main principles that public sector workers must be held accountable to: integrity, honesty ...
A permanent secretary is the most senior civil servant of a department or ministry charged with running the department or ministry's day-to-day activities. Permanent secretaries are the non-political civil service 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 ...
The Senior Civil Service has four grades: Grade 5 – normally the head of a division (possibly managing several different branches) Grade 3 – head of a directorate or executive agency; Permanent Secretary – head of the department or Government Legal Services; Head of Service – Head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service
The UK Permanent Secretary to the Treasury is the most senior civil servant at HM Treasury. The post originated as that of Assistant Secretary to the Treasury in 1805; that office was given new duties and renamed in 1867 as a Permanent Secretaryship .
The Permanent Secretary to the Scottish Government (Scottish Gaelic: Rùnaire Maireannach Riaghaltas na h-Alba) is the most senior civil servant in Scotland who leads more than 7,000 staff within the Scottish Government and has oversight of around 125 agencies.
Crown servant; Civil Service (Amendment) Order in Council 1997; Civil Service Code; Civil Service Commission (United Kingdom) Civil Service Commissioners for Northern Ireland; Civil Service Islamic Society; Civil Service lifeboats; Civil Service Live; Clerk of the Chamber; Clerk of the Crown in Chancery; Colonial Service; Constitutional Reform ...