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In the United Kingdom, the Civil Service is the permanent bureaucracy or secretariat of Crown employees that supports His Majesty's Government, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government, which is led by a cabinet of ministers chosen by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The permanent secretary, who in some but not all government departments is known formally as the permanent under-secretary of state, is the accounting officer for a department, meaning that they are answerable to Parliament for ensuring that the department appropriately spends money granted by Parliament.
The ministership was created for Harold Wilson on 1 November 1968 when responsibilities for the pay and management of the Civil Service was transferred from HM Treasury to a new Civil Service Department. [11] Margaret Thatcher announced the abolition of the Civil Service Department to the House of Commons on 12 November 1981. [12] [13]
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The Permanent Secretary leads the Scottish Government civil service department, ensuring the department delivers the full range of devolved powers and duties that the Scottish Parliament has sole responsibility for as outlined in the Scotland Acts of 1998, 2012 and 2016. [6]
The role of the private secretary to a secretary of state originated in the 18th century. [1] Today, a junior minister may have a three-person private office consisting of a private secretary and two assistant private secretaries; whereas a more senior minister may have a five-person private office consisting of a senior private secretary, private secretary and three assistant private secretaries.
The Minister for the Civil Service is a position held ex officio by the Prime Minister. [3] That was done through powers contained in the Civil Service Order in Council 1982, an Order in Council, an exercise of the royal prerogative. These powers purported to allow the Minister for the Civil Service to make regulations for the Civil Service.
The National School of Government (previously known as the Civil Service College and the Centre for Management and Policy Studies, or CMPS) [2] was the part of the Cabinet Office that ran training, organisational development and consultancy courses for UK civil servants and private individual learners.