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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.
People who hold or have held the rank of Permanent Secretary or its equivalent (former Grade 1/1A) in the Civil Service.Note that there are officials in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales who hold or have held the title of Permanent Secretary, but who do not hold equivalent rank and who should not be included in this category.
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 prime minister builds towards a major relaunch after only five months of government as he picks Sir Chris Wormald, the Department of Health’s long-serving permanent secretary, to take over ...
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 .
Catherine "Cat" Joanna Little CB (born 19 May 1980) is a British civil servant, who is Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary and the chief operating officer of the United Kingdom's Civil Service, replacing Sir Alex Chisholm in April 2024.
The Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Defence, [1] [2] also called the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Defence, [3] [4] is the permanent secretary at the Ministry of Defence. The office holder is the government's principal civilian adviser on Defence matters. [5] The office holder is a member of the Defence Council and the Defence ...
On 30 March 2020, the then Cabinet Secretary, Sir Mark Sedwill, with the approval of the prime minister, approved the appointment of Pocklington as the new Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government following a brief period as acting Permanent Secretary following the resignation of Dame Melanie Dawes.