All posts tagged "Permanent Secretary"

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  Benefits department handed ‘impossible’ caseload, says former chief

  The incoming 2010 UK government handed its benefits department such a vast caseload of policies and reforms that “it would have literally been impossible for it all to have gone

  • Posted January 18, 2018
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  Nigeria scrambles to replace retiring perm secs

  The Nigerian federal government has drawn up a civil service leadership succession plan, in a bid to replace 16 permanent secretaries who are due to retire this year. The move

  • Posted May 24, 2017
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  Queen celebrates diversity with female civil service leaders

  Female permanent secretaries, past and present, gathered at Buckingham Palace to celebrate diversity in the UK civil service with the Queen last month. A reception was held in the Queen’s

  • Posted March 5, 2017
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  UK Home Office perm sec chosen as top security adviser to Theresa May

  The permanent secretary of UK prime minister Theresa May’s previous department, the Home Office, has been appointed to the role of National Security Advisor. Mark Sedwill becomes the latest official

  • Posted March 1, 2017
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  Antonia Romeo confirmed as UK trade perm sec

  Antonia Romeo, a British official based in New York to manage the UK’s trade relations with the US, has been named the new permanent secretary of the UK’s Department for

  • Posted January 16, 2017
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  John Kingman, champion of HM Treasury’s supply-side activism, warns of Brexit threat

  The former second permanent secretary at the UK Treasury last week mounted a passionate defence of its activist micro-economic policies – now under threat in Westminster’s shifting political landscape. Matt

  • Posted October 24, 2016
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  Health department chief Una O’Brien to leave British civil service

  The first ever female permanent secretary of the UK’s Department of Health, Dame Una O’Brien, has today announced she is stepping down from her role. O’Brien, who assumed her current

  • Posted December 14, 2015
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  Sir David Nicholson, Former Chief Executive, National Health Service, UK: Exclusive Interview

  Sir David Nicholson left the UK’s National Health Service last year, after spending his whole career in this vast organisation. He talks to Global Government Forum about the lessons he

  • Posted August 5, 2015
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