On 24 October 2018 Sir Jeremy Heywood announced in a personal statement that he was standing down as Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service to concentrate on his recovery from ill health.
He was appointed Cabinet Secretary following the announcement of Sir Gus O’Donnell’s retirement in December 2011. From September 2014 Jeremy also took on the title Head of the Civil Service.
...the situation, the principles and conventions about how a government is formed remain the same. The Cabinet Manual The United Kingdom famously has an uncodified constitution. But one recent development...
...50 of the largest departments and agencies. Data from QDS now regularly informs decision-making by Ministers in a variety of different ways - from comparing the efficiency of fraud strategies...
...Last week, on a visit to Manchester, I saw at first-hand how the Manchester and Salford Better Business Compliance Partnership and Border Force and Immigration Enforcement commands are demonstrating just...
...a result of the Civil Service Reform Plan. Overall, the Civil Service is becoming more innovative, more digital, more open and more responsive to the needs of service users. Productivity...
What's in the latest edition of Civil Service Quarterly? Sir Jeremy takes a look at the great work done by civil servants in issue 7.
...Plan as we know that civil servants can learn a lot from spending time in the private sector and that the Civil Service can really benefit from bringing in some...
...that show how individual civil servants are successfully taking forward key elements of the reform programme. This work has been jointly led by the Minister for Cabinet Office, Francis Maude,...
...1000 diplomatic, development and military personnel in Sierra Leone, delivering our joined-up effort to contain and eradicate the outbreak. The environment in which some of our posts operate is particularly...
Sir Jeremy Heywood thanks those civil servants who will be working on Christmas Day and everyone in the Civil Service for their hard work this year.
...Measures already in place include provision of detailed guidance for civil servants about how to raise concerns and who to report them to, and stronger leadership from departments to reinforce...
