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Frauds and mistakes cost the public sector about £20bn a year. Stuart Watson examines the efforts underway to spot criminal activity and government errors, and to end the chronic leakage from ever-shrinking public budgets.
Permanent Secretary, Department for International Development
Ian Watmore is the chief operating officer of the Cabinet Office's Efficiency and Reform Group. On 1 January he will become the Cabinet Office permanent secretary
Director General and HM Government Chief Information Officer, Corporate IT, Department for Work and Pensions
Permanent Secretary, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Permanent Secretary and Head of HM Diplomatic Service, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Head of Government HR Operations and Director General, Civil Service Capability Group, Cabinet Office; and Director General, Human Resources, Department for Work and Pensions
Executive Director, Major Projects Authority, Efficiency and Reform Group, Cabinet Office
Permanent Secretary, Welsh Government
Head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service and Secretary to the Executive, Northern Ireland Executive
HM Procurator-General, Treasury Solicitor and Head of the Government Legal Service, Treasury Solicitor's Department
Permanent Secretary, Scottish Government
Permanent Secretary, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Permanent Secretary, Home Office
Permanent Secretary, Department for Transport From January, Lin Homer will become chief executive of HMRC
Prime Minister's National Security Adviser
Permanent Secretary, Department for Work and Pensions
Permanent Secretary and Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, Ministry of Justice
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence
Permanent Secretary, Department for Education
Permanent Secretary, Department for Communities and Local Government On 1 January, Sir Bob will become the Head of the Civil Service
Permanent Secretary, Number 10
On 1 January, Jeremy Heywood will become the cabinet secretary
In 2000, Tim Kelsey launched the private business Dr Foster to produce a league table on hospital performance. Now he’s been hired by the PM to push the transparency agenda throughout Whitehall. Matt Ross meets him.