Permanent Under-Secretary of State of the: Home Office | |
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Reports to | Home Secretary |
Term length | At His Majesty's pleasure |
First holder | J. Bell |
Website | www |
The Permanent Under-Secretary of State of the Home Office is: the permanent secretary of the Home Office, the most senior civil servant in the department, "charged with running its affairs on a day-to-day basis."
Home Office Permanent Secretariesβ»
- March 1782: J. Bell
- December 1791: John King
- February 1806 β 1817: John Beckett β»
- June 1817 β 1827: Henry Hobhouse
- July 1827 β 1848: Samuel March Phillipps
- 1848β1867: Horatio Waddington
- 1867β1885: (Sir) Adolphus Frederick Octavius Liddell
- June 1885: Sir H. Maine
- July 1885 β 1895: Sir Godfrey Lushington
- 1895β1903: Sir Kenelm Digby
- 1903β1908: Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Chalmers
- 1908β1922: Sir Edward Troup
- 1922β1932: Sir John Anderson
- 1932β1938: Sir Russell Scott
- 1938β1948: Sir Alexander Maxwell
- 1948β1957: Sir Frank Newsam
- 1957β1966: Sir Charles Cunningham
- 1966β1972: Sir Philip Allen
- 1972β1977: Sir Arthur Peterson
- 1977β1979: Sir Robert Armstrong
- 1979β1988: Sir Brian Cubbon
- 1988β1994: Sir Clive Whitmore
- 1994β1997: Sir Richard Wilson
- 1997β2001: Sir David Omand
- 2001β2005: Sir John Gieve
- 2005β2011: Sir David Normington
- 2011β2012: Dame Helen Ghosh
- 2012β2013: Helen Kilpatrick (acting)
- 2013β2017: Mark Sedwill
- 2017β2020: Sir Philip Rutnam
- 17 March 2020: Sir Matthew Rycroft
See alsoβ»
- Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
- Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
- Undersecretary
Referencesβ»
- ^ "William Davidson". The National Archives. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
Henry Hobhouse, permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office 1817-1827
- ^ "MI5 saved royal fascist from jail". BBC News. 5 March 2006. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
Sir Alexander Maxwell, then Permanent Under Secretary of State at the Home Office
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1896). "Phillipps, Samuel March" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 45. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Source for Liddell and all his predecessors β Newsam F. (Newsam F (1954) The Home Office (London, Allen and Unwin), p.215)
- ^ "Home Office boss quits over 'campaign against him'". BBC News. 29 February 2020. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
- ^ "Matthew Rycroft CBE appointed Permanent Secretary at the Home Office". gov.uk. Retrieved 14 September 2020.