His Majesty's Revenue and Customs is a non-ministerial department of the UK Government responsible for the collection of taxes,the payment of some forms of state support,the administration of other regulatory regimes including the national minimum wage and the issuance of national insurance numbers. HMRC was formed by the merger of the Inland Revenue and HM Customs and Excise,which took effect on 18 April 2005. The department's logo is the Tudor Crown enclosed within a circle.
Dame Helen Frances Ghosh,is a former British civil servant who has been Master of Balliol College,Oxford since 2018. She was previously Director-General of the National Trust from November 2012 to April 2018.
Dame Carolyn Julia McCall is a British businesswoman. She previously served as the chief executive of EasyJet from 2010 to 2017.
The UK Border Agency (UKBA) was the border control agency of the Government of the United Kingdom and part of the Home Office that was superseded by UK Visas and Immigration,Border Force and Immigration Enforcement in April 2013. It was formed as an executive agency on 1 April 2008 by a merger of the Border and Immigration Agency (BIA),UKvisas and the detection functions of HM Revenue and Customs. The decision to create a single border control organisation was taken following a Cabinet Office report.
Dame Lesley Ann Strathie,DCB was a British senior civil servant.
The UKBF 42m Customs Cutter,formerly HMRC 42m Customs Cutter &UKBA 42m Customs Cutter,is a class of four patrol vessels,derived from the Dutch Damen Stan Patrol 4207 design,operated by the UK Border Force.
David Anthony Hartnett CB is a former British civil servant who served as the Permanent Secretary for Tax at HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) until his retirement in July 2012. Following his retirement he advised HSBC on financial crime governance alongside former Director General of the Serious Organised Crime Agency,Bill Hughes.
Nadhim Zahawi is an Iraqi-born British politician who served in various ministerial positions under prime ministers Theresa May,Boris Johnson,Liz Truss,and Rishi Sunak from 2018 to 2023. He most recently served as Chairman of the Conservative Party and Minister without Portfolio from 25 October 2022 until he was dismissed by Sunak on 29 January 2023. A member of the Conservative Party,he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Stratford-on-Avon from 2010 to 2024.
Stephen James Phillips is a British Conservative Party politician,barrister and recorder. He represented the constituency of Sleaford and North Hykeham as its Member of Parliament (MP) from 2010 until his resignation on 4 November 2016,when he announced that he was standing down with immediate effect owing to his irreconcilable policy differences with the government.
Dame Karen Anne Bradley is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Staffordshire Moorlands since 2010. She served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2018 to 2019.
Diana Mary "Dido" Harding,Baroness Harding of Winscombe is a British businesswoman and life peer who served as chair of NHS Improvement from 2017 to 2021,and as interim chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and head of NHS Test and Trace from 2020 to 2021.
Border Force (BF) is a British law enforcement command within the Home Office,responsible for frontline border control operations at air,sea and rail ports in the United Kingdom. The force was part of the now defunct UK Border Agency from its establishment in 2008 until Home Secretary Theresa May demerged it in March 2012 after severe criticism of the senior management.
Dame Glenys Jean Stacey DBE is a solicitor and civil servant serving as chair of the Office for Environmental Protection from February 2021. She was Chief Executive and Chief Regulator of Ofqual,acting in the post from August to December 2020,and previously from 2012 to 2016. Stacey also served as Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Probation and led HM Inspectorate of Probation for England and Wales from 2016 and 2019.
Dame Alison Margaret Saunders,is a British barrister and a former Director of Public Prosecutions. She was the first lawyer from within the Crown Prosecution Service and the second woman to hold the appointment. She was also the second holder of this office not to be a Queen's Counsel. She was previously the Chief Crown Prosecutor for CPS London. Her term of office ended on 31 October 2018. She is now a Partner at the Magic Circle law firm Linklaters.
UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) is a division of the Home Office responsible for the United Kingdom's visa system. It was formed in 2013 from the section of the UK Border Agency that had administered the visa system.
Dame Lynne Gillian Owens,is a senior police officer in the United Kingdom. She was made interim Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service in September 2022 before being confirmed as that role's permanent holder in February 2023,the first-ever such female holder.
Dame Melanie Henrietta Dawes is a British economist and administrator. Since February 2020 she has been Chief Executive of Ofcom. She was previously the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Housing,Communities and Local Government,and before that worked at HM Treasury,HM Revenue and Customs,and in the Cabinet Office. She is a Trustee of the Patchwork Foundation,founded by Harris Bokhari.
Dame Clare Moriarty DCB is the Chief Executive of Citizens Advice and a former British civil servant,who served as permanent secretary of the Department for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs between 2015 and 2019 and as Permanent Secretary of the Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU) from March 2019 until January 2020. In November 2017,she was appointed the first civil service “faith and belief”champion,to represent all faiths and beliefs and promote interfaith dialogue. After leaving the Civil Service when DExEU was closed,she took up a new role as chief executive of Citizens Advice in April 2021.
Theresa May served as home secretary from 2010 until 2016. As a member of David Cameron's first government May was appointed as home secretary on 12 May 2010,shortly after Cameron became prime minister,and continued in the post as part of the Cameron's second government following the 2015 general election. She held the post until she succeeded Cameron as prime minister on 13 July 2016. May was the second woman to be appointed as home secretary after Jacqui Smith,and the fourth woman to hold one of the Great Offices of State.
Dame Jennifer Margaret Harries is a British public health physician who has been the chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and head of NHS Test and Trace since May 2021. She was previously a regional director at Public Health England,and then Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England from June 2019 until her UKHSA appointment in 2021.
