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Permanent Secretary of the Department for Energy and Climate Change
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
Mike Bracken
Executive Director of Digital for the UK Government
Alex Aiken
Executive Director of Government Communications
John Manzoni
Chief Executive of the Civil Service
Sir Jeremy Heywood
Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service
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In our monthly feature focussing on people who have crossed organisational and sectoral boundaries, Mark Gibson talks about his move from the then-Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR) to the Whitehall and Industry Group
The government’s ambitious service reform plans effectively ignore digital exclusion, argues Labour front-bencher Chi Onwurah
The long-term impact of a changing climate is cruelly revealing the weaknesses in our government structures, argues Will Day
These days, libraries lack books and students lack learning, a university librarian tells Adam Branson
In cookery, chefs combine ingredients to make their dishes more tasty and nutritious; but most local services are consumed individually. Adam Branson tastes the stew being cooked up by the Community Budgets project
Select committees are set to broaden the debate, argues Professor Patrick Dunleavy of the London School of Economics.
Permanent secretaries’ annual performance targets, published for the second time at the end of last year, include a huge range of metrics, aspirations and aims. Mark Rowe hears the reaction to a very varied field of objectives
We need to rethink education – and the DfE’s response to constructive critics, says David Bell
The prime minister should be able to pick permanent secretaries from a list of good candidates, argues Guy Lodge of the IPPR
The next wave of government services to go online will include payments to farmers, vehicle licensing services and PAYE tax assessments, the Cabinet Office has announced. By 2015, 26 services are to be relaunched in a digital form by the seven departments that handle the majority of central government transactions, plus the Cabinet Office.
No-one likes to be stereotyped, but using employee engagement surveys to categorise and understand employees makes sense, argues Jonny Gifford of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
Among the departments, the DfT has seen most churn at the top – but since 2010, half have lost as many director-generals as they employ. As Jon Stone reports, turnover among perm secs and junior ministers is even faster
Looking for half-full glasses, Dave Penman finds more half-empty ones. Is the government, ever-keen to cut and criticise, drunk on power?
Ed Lester Chief Executive of the Land Registry
Alun Evans Director of the Scotland Office
Derek Jones Permanent Secretary of the Welsh Government