The Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Defence, also called the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Defence, is the permanent secretary at the Ministry...
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under the Defence (Transfer of Functions) Act 1964, the functions of these bodies were transferred to the Defence Council and the Secretary of State for...
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at the Ministry of Defence and works alongside the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Defence, the ministry's senior civil servant. The CDS is the...
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David Williams (civil servant) (category Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for Defence)
as the permanent under-secretary of state for defence since April 2021, succeeding Stephen Lovegrove. He served as the second permanent secretary at the...
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The Minister of State for Defence is a mid-level position in the Ministry of Defence in the British government. It is currently held by Lord Coaker, who...
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Michael Quinlan (civil servant) (category Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for Defence)
former British defence strategist and former Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Defence, who wrote and lectured on defence and matters of international...
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Army Board (category British defence policymaking)
for Defence and Minister for Veterans Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Defence Second Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Defence (Secretary...
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parliamentary under-secretary of state (or just parliamentary secretary, particularly in departments not led by a Secretary of State) is the lowest of three tiers...
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A permanent under-secretary of state, known informally as a permanent secretary, is the most senior civil servant of a ministry in the United Kingdom,...
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Frank Cooper (civil servant) (category Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for Defence)
servant. He was Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Northern Ireland Office and Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence. Cooper was born...
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list of Permanent Under-Secretaries for Scotland in the Civil Service. It should not be confused with the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland...
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Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces is a mid-level ministerial position at the Ministry of Defence in the Government of the United...
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Air Force Board (category Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom))
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Veterans and People Director of Resources Second Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Defence (Secretary of the Air...
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Capability for developing its capability, sustainability and doctrine. Army Command reorganization Archived 2011-11-12 at the Wayback Machine Defence Marketing...
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Michael Cary (category Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for Defence)
March 1976) was a British civil servant who served as Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Defence. Cary was born to Joyce Cary and Gertrude Margaret Ogilvie...
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Richard Mottram (category Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for Defence)
private secretary to Michael Heseltine, the Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence, he was a witness for the prosecution in the trial of Clive Ponting...
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Jon Thompson (civil servant) (category Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for Defence)
the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence (MOD) from September 2012 until April 2016, when he succeeded Dame Lin Homer as Permanent Secretary and...
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part of a government department – the Ministry of Defence (MoD) – rather than a stand-alone organisation. The organisation employs a mixture of civilian...
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professional military advisors. The Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Defence (generally known as the Permanent Secretary) is the senior civil servant at...
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Clive Whitmore (category Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for Defence)
Principal Private Secretary to Margaret Thatcher from 1979 to 1982. After that, he was appointed as Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence and served...
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Stephen Lovegrove (category Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for Defence)
permanent secretary roles at the Department of Energy and Climate Change and the Ministry of Defence. Lovegrove was born in 1966, the second child of...
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December 2023. "Air Command senior, as of September 2012 - GOV.UK". assets.publishing.service.gov.uk. Defence Reform Report ("the Levene Report"), June...
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Hacker MP is told a joke by his Private Secretary, Bernard Woolley, about what the various post-nominals stand for. From Series 2, Episode 2 "Doing the Honours":...
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The Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Cabinet Office, known informally as the Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary, is the second-most senior civil...
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Robert Heatlie Scott (category Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for Defence)
February 1982) was a British civil servant who became Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence. Educated at Inverness Academy, Queen's Royal College...
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United States secretary of defense (acronym: SecDef) is the head of the United States Department of Defense (DoD), the executive department of the U.S. Armed...
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Christopher France (civil servant) (category Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for Defence)
of Defence in 1981 as a deputy secretary and then the Department of Health and Social Security in 1984; he was the DHSS's Second Permanent Secretary from...
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Matthew Rycroft (category Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for International Development)
who served as Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office from March 2020 to March 2025, appointed following the resignation of Sir Philip Rutnam...
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The Defence Nuclear Organisation (DNO) is one of the seven top level budget holders within the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence. The organisation...
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position of Under-Secretary of State for War was a British government position, first applied to Evan Nepean (appointed in 1794). In 1801 the offices for War...
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