The Department for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom. It is responsible for environmental protection,food production and standards,agriculture,fisheries and rural communities in the entire United Kingdom. Concordats set out agreed frameworks for cooperation,between it and the Scottish Government,Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive,which have devolved responsibilities for these matters in their respective nations.
Sir Richard John Packer,KCB,is a former British civil servant. He was Permanent Secretary at Ministry of Agriculture,Fisheries and Food (MAFF) from 1993 until 2000. He was knighted (KCB) in 2000.
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.
Sir Brian Geoffrey Bender was a British civil servant,who served as the Permanent Secretary of three departments,two of which were re-organised whilst he was at their helm.
Nicholas James Kroll is a British civil servant who served as director of the BBC Trust from 2007 to 2014. He was the principal adviser to the BBC Trust and head of the BBC Trust Unit,the BBC department that supports and advises the trust.
Stephen Paul Barclay is a British politician who served in various cabinet positions under prime ministers Theresa May,Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak between 2018 and 2024,lastly as the Secretary of State for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs from 2023 to 2024. A member of the Conservative Party,he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Cambridgeshire since 2010,and was Shadow Secretary of State for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs from July to November 2024.
Camden London Borough Council,also known as Camden Council,is the local authority for the London Borough of Camden in Greater London,England. It is a London borough council,one of 32 in London. The council has been under Labour majority control since 2010. The council meets at Camden Town Hall and has its main offices at 5 Pancras Square.
Moira Paul Wallace,OBE is a former British civil servant and academic administrator. She was Provost of Oriel College,Oxford,from 2013 to 2018. Until October 2012 she was the first Permanent Secretary of the Department of Energy and Climate Change,having moved from her role as Director General of the Crime Reduction and Community Safety Group the Home Office in November 2008.
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.
Sir Robin Mountfield,KCB was a British civil servant,who retired in 1999 from his most senior post as Permanent Secretary at the Cabinet Office.
Lucy Jeanne Neville-Rolfe,Baroness Neville-Rolfe is a British businesswoman and politician who served as Minister of State at the Cabinet Office from September 2022 to July 2024. A member of the Conservative Party,she served in ministerial positions under prime ministers David Cameron,Theresa May,Liz Truss,and Rishi Sunak. In December 2021,she was appointed by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to lead the statutory review into the state pension age.
Sir Andrew Gordon Manzie,KCB was a British civil servant and chief executive of the Property Services Agency.
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.
The Economic and Domestic Affairs Secretariat (EDS) is a secretariat in the United Kingdom Cabinet Office.
Dame Bernadette Mary Kelly,is a British senior civil servant who has served as permanent secretary for the Department for Transport since 18 April 2017.
Sir Peter Hugh Gordon Schofield,is a senior British civil servant,currently serving as Permanent Secretary for the Department for Work and Pensions since January 2018.
Shona Hunter Dunn is the CEO of the First Aid charity St John Ambulance and a former British civil servant,serving from October 2018 to May 2024 as the Second Permanent Secretary at the Home Office.
Jeremy Mark Pocklington CB is a British civil servant who has served as Permanent Secretary of the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero since February 2023. He served as Permanent Secretary of the Department for Levelling Up,Housing and Communities (DLUHC) from March 2020 to February 2023. He was formerly Director General for Housing and Planning at the MHCLG,having served in that role from August 2018 until his appointment as Permanent Secretary at the MHCLG.
