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The Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Defence, [1] [2] also called the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Defence, [3] [4] is the permanent secretary at the Ministry of Defence. The office holder is the government's principal civilian adviser on Defence matters. [5] The office holder is a member of the Defence Council and the Defence ...
The Defence Services Secretary is the senior member of the Royal Household responsible for liaison between the Sovereign and the British Armed Forces. [1] He is answerable to the Secretary of State for Defence and the Chief of Defence Staff for tri-service appointments, national ceremonial events and honours, decorations, awards and medals. [2]
The permanent secretary, who in some but not all government departments is known formally as the permanent under-secretary of state, is the accounting officer for a department, meaning that they are answerable to Parliament for ensuring that the department appropriately spends money granted by Parliament.
Defence Secretary John Healey has been challenged to press the Prime Minister to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP if the UK’s threat levels are found to have risen.
Sir Richard Dannatt, the former head of the Armed Forces, says Shapps knows ‘very little’ about defence
The Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Defence (generally known as the Permanent Secretary) is the senior civil servant at the MOD. Their role is to ensure that it operates effectively as a government department and has responsibility for the strategy, performance, reform, organisation and the finances of the MOD. [ 31 ]
Keetley was commissioned the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers in 1995. [1] Promoted to brigadier on 31 December 2019, [2] she became Deputy Chief of Staff at the NATO Rapid Deployable Corps – Spain in 2019, Deputy Commanding General for Support for the Security Assistance Group Ukraine in 2022 and Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (People Capability) and Defence Services ...
David Peter Williams CB (born December 1968 [2]) is a British civil servant who has served as the permanent under-secretary of state for defence since April 2021, succeeding Stephen Lovegrove. [3] He served as the second permanent secretary at the Department of Health and Social Care since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United ...