Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State is the lowest of three tiers of government minister in the UK government,immediately junior to a Minister of State,which is itself junior to a Secretary of State.
The Clerk of the Crown in Chancery in Great Britain is a senior civil servant who is the head of the Crown Office.
Sir Sumantra "Suma" Chakrabarti is a former British civil servant who served as president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) from July 2012 to July 2020. He was previously the highest ranking Indian in Britain's civil service,serving as Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Justice and Clerk of the Crown in Chancery from late 2007 until 2012.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is a ministerial department of His Majesty's Government headed by the Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor. Its stated priorities are to reduce re-offending and protect the public,to provide access to justice,to increase confidence in the justice system,and uphold people's civil liberties. The Secretary of State is the minister responsible to Parliament for the judiciary,the court system and prisons and probation in England and Wales,with some additional UK-wide responsibilities e.g. the UK Supreme Court and judicial appointments by the Crown. The department is also responsible for areas of constitutional policy not transferred in 2010 to the Deputy Prime Minister,human rights law and information rights law across the UK.
Sir Thomas Whinfield Scholar is a British civil servant who served as Permanent Secretary to the Treasury until 8 September 2022.
Ian Charles Watmore is a British management consultant and former senior civil servant under three prime ministers,serving from October 2016 as the First Civil Service Commissioner.
Nicholas Archibald Hamblen,Lord Hamblen of Kersey,PC is a justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. Prior to his judicial career Hamblen was a specialist in maritime and commercial law.
The Office of the Parliamentary Counsel (OPC) is responsible for drafting all government Bills that are introduced to Parliament. Established in 1869,the OPC has been part of various departments and is currently part of the Cabinet Office. Led by Elizabeth Gardiner,the First Parliamentary Counsel and Permanent Secretary,the OPC consists of 60 members of staff,47 of whom are lawyers and 13 of whom are support staff. The lawyers who work in the office are referred to as Parliamentary counsel or Parliamentary draftsmen.
Sir Thomas Stuart Legg is a British former senior civil servant,who was Permanent Secretary of the Lord Chancellor's Department and Clerk of the Crown in Chancery,United Kingdom (1989–98).
The National Security Adviser (NSA) is a senior official in the Cabinet Office,based in Whitehall,who serves as the principal adviser to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Cabinet of the United Kingdom on all national security issues. The NSA post was created in May 2010 as part of the reforms that also saw the creation of the National Security Council. There have been six holders of the office to date,of whom two served more than three years in the post.
Dame Ursula Brennan is a retired British civil servant and a former Permanent Secretary at the United Kingdom's Ministry of Justice where she was also the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery.
Simon Gerard McDonald,Baron McDonald of Salford,is a British former diplomat who was the Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Head of the Diplomatic Service until September 2020. He was the last professional head of the Foreign &Commonwealth Office before the creation of the Foreign,Commonwealth and Development Office. He has been the Master of Christ's College,Cambridge,since September 2022.
The Honours Committee is a committee within the Cabinet Office of the Government of the United Kingdom formed to review nominations for national honours for merit,exceptional achievement or service. Twice yearly the Honours Committee submits formal recommendations for the British monarch's New Years and Birthday Honours. Members of the Honours Committee—which comprises a main committee and nine subcommittees in speciality areas—research and vet nominations for national awards,including knighthoods and the Order of the British Empire.
David Cameron formed the second Cameron ministry,the first Conservative majority government since 1996,following the 2015 general election after being invited by Queen Elizabeth II to form a new administration. Prior to the election Cameron had led his first ministry,the Cameron–Clegg coalition,a coalition government that consisted of members of the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats,with Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg as Deputy Prime Minister.
Thomas Christopher John Pursglove is a British politician serving as Minister of State for Disabled People,Health and Work. He served as Minister of State for Immigration from September 2022 to October 2022. He served as Minister of State for Crime and Policing from July 2022 to September. A member of the Conservative Party,he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Corby since May 2015. Aged 26 at the time of his election,he was the youngest Conservative MP.
Simon Case is a British civil servant who is the current Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service since 9 September 2020,succeeding Sir Mark Sedwill.
Antonia Rebecca Caroline Romeo is a British civil servant. She is currently serving as the permanent secretary at the Ministry of Justice and Clerk of the Crown in Chancery. She was the permanent secretary at the Department for International Trade and before that,the British consul-general in New York for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and concurrently director-general for economic and commercial affairs in the USA.
Michael Alex Burghart is a British politician,academic and former teacher who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Brentwood and Ongar since 2017. A member of the Conservative Party,he was formerly a special adviser to Theresa May. He has been serving as Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office since October 2022.
The Crown Office,also known as the Crown Office in Chancery,is a section of the Ministry of Justice. It has custody of the Great Seal of the Realm,and has certain administrative functions in connection with the courts and the judicial process,as well as functions relating to the electoral process for House of Commons elections,to the keeping of the Roll of the Peerage,and to the preparation of royal documents such as warrants required to pass under the royal sign-manual,fiats,letters patent,etc. In legal documents,the Crown Office refers to the office of the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery.
A permanent under-secretary of state,known informally as a permanent secretary,is the most senior civil servant of a ministry in the United Kingdom,charged with running the department on a day-to-day basis. Similar offices,often employing different terms,exist in many other Westminster-style systems and in some other governments. In the United States,the equivalent position is a Deputy Secretary of an executive department,though British permanent secretaries are career civil servants.
