His Majesty's Home Civil Service is the permanent bureaucracy or secretariat of Crown employees that supports His Majesty's Government,which is led by a cabinet of ministers chosen by the prime minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The Government of the United Kingdom is divided into departments that each have responsibility,according to the government,for putting government policy into practice. There are currently 24 ministerial departments,20 non-ministerial departments,and 422 agencies and other public bodies,for a total of 465 departments.
Andrew Turnbull,Baron Turnbull,is a British politician and civil servant who served as the head of Her Majesty's Civil Service and Cabinet Secretary between 2002 and 2005,when he was succeeded by Sir Gus O'Donnell. He now sits in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.
Augustine Thomas O'Donnell,Baron O'Donnell,is a former British senior civil servant and economist,who between 2005 and 2011 served as the Cabinet Secretary,the highest official in the British Civil Service.
Sir Alastair Muir Russell is a Scottish retired civil servant and former Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow,and Chairman of the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland.
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 Permanent Secretary to the Scottish Government is the most senior civil servant in Scotland who leads more than 7,000 staff within the Scottish Government and has oversight of around 125 agencies.
Sir John William Elvidge KCB,FRSE is the former Permanent Secretary to the Scottish Government. He was appointed in July 2003,replacing Sir Muir Russell. He retired from the post in June 2010.
Sir Michael Charles Scholar,KCB is a British civil servant and former President of St John's College,Oxford.
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.
Sir Martin Eugene Donnelly,is a British former civil servant. He was Permanent Secretary of the Department for International Trade,until leaving the Civil Service on 24 March 2017.
Sir Robert John Devereux,KCB is a retired senior British civil servant,who served as Permanent Secretary for the Department for Transport from 2007 to 2011,and oversaw a new policy increasing the UK retirement age to 67 at the Department for Work and Pensions from 2011 until his retirement at 61 in January 2018.
Sir Jonathan Michael Thompson,is a British civil servant who served as the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence (MOD) from September 2012 until April 2016,when he succeeded Dame Lin Homer as Permanent Secretary and Chief Executive of HM Revenue and Customs. He became Chief Executive of the Financial Reporting Council after leaving HMRC in Autumn 2019.
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.
Sir Peter Lewis Gregson,was a British civil servant. He was Permanent Secretary of the Department of Energy from 1985 to 1989,and of the Department of Trade and Industry from 1989 until his retirement in 1996.
Sir Christopher Stephen Wormald KCB is a British civil servant serving as Permanent Secretary of the Department of Health and Social Care since 2016,having previously served as Permanent Secretary of the Department for Education from 2012 to 2016.
Sir Charles Craik Cunningham,was a Scottish civil servant. From 1957 to 1966,he was Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office,its most senior civil servant. He had worked in the Scottish Office from 1929 until moving to the Home Office in 1957,and served as Secretary of the Scottish Home Department between 1948 and 1957.
This is a list of Permanent Under-Secretaries for Scotland in the Civil Service. It should not be confused with the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland.
Sir Peter Robert Baldwin,KCB was a British civil servant.
Sir Geoffrey Howes Chipperfield was a British civil servant.
