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The Civil Service

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The Permanent Secretary is the official head and usually the accounting officer of the Department and is responsible to the Minister for all the Department’s activities.

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Mortimore, R., Blick, A. (2018). The Civil Service. In: Mortimore, R., Blick, A. (eds) Butler's British Political Facts. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56709-3_2

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