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.
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.
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.
Nicholas Beverley Joicey is Second Permanent Secretary and Group Chief Operating Officer at the Department for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs. He was briefly Director General of the Cabinet Office's Economic and Domestic Secretariat,having previously been Director General for Finance at the Department for Work and Pensions,and before that,Director General for Strategy,International and Finance at the Department for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs. He previously worked as private secretary and speech writer to United Kingdom Chancellor Gordon Brown,as a journalist at The Observer newspaper and as director of the International Department at HM Treasury.
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.
Helen Marjorie Kilpatrick is a British civil servant. She was Governor of the Cayman Islands between 2013 and 2018.
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.
Davenport Fabian Cartwright Blunt was a British Civil Servant who became Under-Secretary at HM Treasury.
Sir Richard Nicholas Heaton,KCB is a barrister and former senior British civil servant who was the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Justice and Clerk of the Crown in Chancery from September 2015 until resigning in August 2020. He had previously served as Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary,and First Parliamentary Counsel. He currently serves as Warden of Robinson College,Cambridge.
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.
Sir Terence ("Terry") Michael Heiser is a former British senior civil servant.
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.
Catriona Wendy Campbell Laing is a British civil servant and diplomat who has been serving as United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres' Special Representative for Somalia and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) since 2023.
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.
Dame Rowena Collins Rice,,the Honourable Mrs Justice Collins Rice,is a British High Court judge and former civil servant.
