David Pitchford

Executive Director, Major Projects Authority

Bronwyn Hill

Permanent Secretary, Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Una O'Brien

Permanent Secretary, Department of Health

Dr Malcolm McKibbin

Head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service

Permanent Secretary, Department for International Development

Permanent Secretary of Welsh Government

Lin Homer

Chief Executive, HM Revenue and Customs

John Hirst

Chief Executive, Met Office

Sir Paul Jenkins

HM Procurator-General, Treasury Solicitor and Head of the Government Legal Service, Treasury Solicitor’s Department

The 2012 Permanent Secretaries' Round-Up

Sir Bob Kerslake

Head of the Civil Service and Permanent Secretary, Department for Communities and Local Government

Ursula Brennan

Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Justice

Robert Devereux

Permanent Secretary, Department for Work and Pensions

Martin Donnelly

Permanent Secretary, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Simon Fraser

Permanent Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

A primary school teacher laments the loss of centralised standards.

The government’s ICT strategy sets out the coalition’s desire to take smaller bites at the IT pie, testing flavour and minimising indigestion. Civil Service World reports back from a round table debate on how to realise that ambition:

Simon Fraser

Permanent Secretary of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Jon Thompson

Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence

Chris Last

Head of Civil Service HR

The government has repeatedly come a cropper when outsourcing work, but the number of outsourced projects is only going to grow. Mark Smulian attends a round table on how the civil service can become a shrewder customer

To encourage poorer and ethnic minority youngsters to consider a career in the civil service, the government has introduced new internships. Tim Fish reports on efforts to ensure Whitehall’s high-flyers are less uniformly white.