Jo Farrar | |
|---|---|
| Assumed office 1 July 2025 | |
| Monarch | Charles III |
| Prime Minister | Keir Starmer |
| Minister | |
| Preceded by | Dame Antonia Romeo |
Dr. Josephine Maria "Jo" Farrar CB OBE is a British civil servant,currently [update] serving since 1 July 2025 as the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Justice and Clerk of the Crown in Chancery. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Farrar's career has covered rôles in local and central government,including as Chief Executive Officer at NHS Blood and Transplant, [5] Second Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Justice for 2021–2023, [6] partially overlapping with being Chief Executive Officer of HM Prison and Probation Service for 2021–2022. She was Director General for Local Government and Public Services at MHCLG from 2016 until 2019, [7] [8] and from 2012–2016 as Chief Executive of Bath and North East Somerset Council. [1] [9] She succeeded Dame Antonia Romeo after Romeo transferred to the Home Office. [3]
Farrer was appointed OBE in the 2016 New Year Honours [10] ,and as CB in the 2021 New Year Honours. [11]
The King has been pleased by Royal Warrant under His Royal Sign Manual dated 2nd September 2025 to appoint Jo Farrar, C.B., O.B.E., to the Office of Clerk of the Crown in Chancery commencing on and from the 1st July 2025.
THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire: O.B.E. To be Ordinary Officers of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order: Dr Josephine FARRAR, Chief Executive, Bath and North East Somerset Council — For services to Local Government
THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following promotion in, and appointments to, the Most Honourable Order of the Bath: C.B. To be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the Third Class, or Companions, of the said Most Honourable Order: Dr. Josephine Maria FARRAR O.B.E., Chief Executive Officer, H.M. Prison and Probation Service