The secretary of state for the Home Department,more commonly known as the home secretary,is a senior minister of the Crown in the Government of the United Kingdom and the head of the Home Office. The position is a Great Office of State,making the home secretary one of the most senior and influential ministers in the government. The incumbent is a statutory member of the British Cabinet and National Security Council.
The 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.
Christopher Laurie "Kit" Malthouse is a British politician and businessman who served as Secretary of State for Education from 6 September to 25 October 2022. A member of the Conservative Party,he previously served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from July to September 2022. He has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Hampshire since 2015.
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 the Government of the United Kingdom. It is 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 to uphold people's civil liberties. The Secretary of State is the minister responsible to Parliament for the judiciary,the court system,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 from 2016 to 2022. He was previously the prime minister's adviser on European and global issues in the Cabinet Office from 2013 to 2016. He has been a director of the nationalised bank Northern Rock,and served as chief of staff for Gordon Brown.
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.
Sir Alexander Claud Stuart Allan is a British civil servant who served as chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee and Head of Intelligence Assessment for Her Majesty's Government between 2007 and 2011.
Sir George Phillips Coldstream was a British barrister and civil servant who served as Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Department and Clerk of the Crown in Chancery from 4 June 1954 to 5 April 1968. Born to an upper-middle-class family,Coldstream was educated at Rugby School and Oriel College,Oxford,where he read law. In 1930 he was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn,but worked as a barrister for only four years before he was recruited into the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel,where he served as Assistant to the Parliamentary Counsel to the Treasury.
Sir Mark Justin Lyall Grant,is a former senior British diplomat who was previously the United Kingdom's National Security Adviser and Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations.
Jeremy John Heywood,Baron Heywood of Whitehall,was a British civil servant who served as Cabinet Secretary to David Cameron and Theresa May from 2012 to 2018 and Head of the Home Civil Service from 2014 to 2018. He served as the Principal Private Secretary to Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from 1999 to 2003 and 2008 to 2010. He also served as Downing Street Chief of Staff and the first Downing Street Permanent Secretary. After he was diagnosed with lung cancer,he took a leave of absence from June 2018,and retired on health grounds on 24 October 2018,receiving a life peerage;he died a fortnight later on 4 November 2018.
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.
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.
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 Conservative politician,academic and former teacher who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Brentwood and Ongar since 2017. 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.
