Energy and Climate Change written question – answered am ar 17 Gorffennaf 2013.
John Robertson
Llafur, Glasgow North West
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change against what criteria the performance of Miss Moira Wallace as permanent Secretary to his Department was assessed.
Gregory Barker
The Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change
Permanent Secretaries are subject to the same performance management regime as the rest of the senior civil service and their performance is assessed, including against their objectives, by the independent permanent Secretary Remuneration Committee. The objectives for all permanent secretaries for 2011-12 covered the following areas: setting direction, delivering results, developing people and living our values. As part of the Government's commitment to greater transparency, all Permanent Secretary individual objectives were published for the first time in December 2012.
Yes3 people think so
No4 people think not
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Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
A Permanent Secretary is a top civil servant- there is a permanent secretary in each Office/Dept./Ministry Permanent Secretaries are always Knights, (I.E. "Sir" or "Dame"). BBC Sitcom "Yes Minster" portrays Sir Humprey Appelby as a Permanent Secretary, steretypically spouting lots of red tape and bureacracy.
