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Ed Lester

Chief Executive of the Land Registry

Chris Last

Head of Civil Service Human Resources

Sir Bob Kerslake

Permanent Secretary of the Department for Communities and Local Government

Jonathan Jones

Treasury Solicitor and HM Procurator General

Sir Derek Jones

Permanent Secretary of the Welsh Government

Bronwyn Hill

Permanent Secretary of the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

Richard Heaton

Permanent Secretary of the Cabinet Office

Sir Simon Fraser

Permanent Secretary of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Martin Donnelly

Permanent Secretary of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Robert Devereux

Permanent Secretary of the Department for Work and Pensions

Bill Crothers

Chief Commercial Officer

Ursula Brennan

Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Justice

Cornerstone’s recent research explored what motivates people to stay in the Civil Service, covering a number of factors from job security and pensions, right through to coaching opportunities and learning and development schemes. Here's what we found

Mike Bracken

Executive Director of Digital for the UK Government

Lord Levene hails a ‘sea change’ at the MoD

John Manzoni

Chief Executive of the Civil Service

For the last five years, Civil Service World has rounded off December by publishing a set of articles written by permanent secretaries and other key figures. This year, Matt Ross finds perm secs focusing on skills, Scotland, global threats – and the creeping advance of Xmas

Sir Jeremy Heywood

Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service

Offender management and rehabilitation services will be spun out from government in 2015

George Osborne's spad enjoys significant pay rise 

National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is India’s flagship socially relevant programme to combat poverty. It provides the legal guarantee of the right to employment to the rural poor.

The Andhra Pradesh Government wanted to implement the scheme in the state, and realised that a transparent and accountable system with IT-led execution at the grass-roots level would go a long way in ensuring its success. 

Twenty-one percent of doctors who die while undergoing “fitness to practise” investigations have taken their own lives, a report has revealed

Two of Theresa May's special advisers have been prevented from standing for Parliament because they refused to campaign for the Conservatives in the Rochester and Strood by-election.

The number of special advisers in government has increased from 93 to 103, according to the Cabinet Office