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  • Tom Pursglove was Minister of State at the Home Office between 7 December 2023 and 5 July 2024. He was previously Minister of State at the Department for Work and Pensions between 27 October 2022 and 7 December 2023. He was …

  • Tom Read was Chief Executive Officer of the Government Digital Service (GDS) from February 2021 to June 2024. Tom joined GDS from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) where he was Chief Digital and Information Officer. While at MOJ…

  • Tom Riordan was Chief Operating Officer and Second Permanent Secretary at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) from September 2024 to January 2026. He also served as Interim Director General for Commercial and Gro…

  • Tom is Director of Policy and Delivery Coordination at the Department for Exiting the European Union. His directorate leads DExEU’s work to coordinate the domestic policy implications of exit, across government departments, …

  • Tom Sleigh is an experienced board leader and non-executive director with expertise in governance, planning, infrastructure and organisational transformation. He chairs the City of London Corporation’s Planning and Transport…

  • Previously a Non-Executive Director of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority(NDA), Tom held the position of Chair of NDA from March 2017 to September 2020. Tom began his career in the Diplomatic Service, working in London, H…

  • Tom Taylor is Director of Finance and Portfolio, and Chief Financial Officer, of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), which he joined in January 2017. Tom joined the Civil Service in 1994, spen…

  • Tom Walker was appointed Director of the Cities and Local Growth Unit in April 2014. This is a cross-cutting team of 160 people across the Business and Local Government Departments. The team has a Whitehall-based group and r…

  • Tom began his Civil Service career in 2006 following experience in the finance sector. He started at the Planning Inspectorate as a Case Officer handling enforcement appeals before moving into a policy role. In 2010, Tom joi…

  • Tom Wells has been the Prime Minister’s Official Spokesperson since October 2025.

  • Tom is Director Strategic Finance and Investment Approvals at the Ministry of Defence and currently on promotion to Director General Finance for an interim period. He has spent most of his civil service career between HM Tre…

  • Tom Wright is Group Chief Executive of Age UK, the leading charity for older people. He is also Chairman of the Richmond Group of leading health charities, and a Trustee of Go ON focussed on digital inclusion. He was previou…

  • Tomi Jones has worked in transport for the past thirty years and been a member of Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee (DPTAC) since 2005. He is currently the Co-Director of the Community Transport Association of Wa…

  • Tony Ackroyd joined DVLA as Operations and Customer Services Director in June 2014. Education Tony has a Higher National Certificate (HNC) in Business Administration and is a part-qualified accountant. Career Tony has more t…

  • Tony has been the UK Policy Adviser to the Governor and Head of the Governor’s office since September 2014. Prior to that he was Head of the Caribbean and Bermuda Section in Overseas Territories Directorate at the Foreign an…

  • Tony Brennan was the British Deputy High Commissioner to Australia from August 2012 until December 2016. Prior to that he was Chargé d’Affaires at the British Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, from April 2012 after being Deputy He…

  • Tony Buffin is Group Chief Operating Officer at Travis Perkins, where he joined as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in 2013. Prior to this, Tony was CFO of the Coles Group, the leading Australian grocery retailer, where he was …

  • Tony Cohen joined the Charity Commission Board in January 2019. He chairs the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee. After working as a newspaper journalist and television producer in the UK, Tony ran a television production co…

  • Tony was appointed Director of Trade & Investment for Malaysia with effect from 10 October 2011. Background Tony joined the Civil Service in 1978, his career largely followed the Government’s privatisation agenda up to 1…

  • Tony Delahunty has over 40 years’ experience working in the inshore fishing industry. He has represented and championed fisheries locally, nationally and internationally throughout his career driven by a lifelong commitment …

  • Tony Douglas assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer for Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) in December 2015. He has held a number of senior roles within several major companies, most recently as the Chief Execut…

  • Tony Eastaugh is the Director General of Immigration Enforcement at the Home Office. Tony was formerly the UK Director of Operations Immigration Enforcement, joining the Home Office from the Metropolitan Police Service in Fe…

  • Tony Foot is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Department for Education. His previous roles include: Director General, Strategy Group at the Department for Education Director of Strategic Finance at the Department for…

  • Tony Fountain took up the role of Chair for Sellafield Ltd on 1 April 2016 as part of the new management arrangements which saw Sellafield Ltd become a wholly owned subsidiary of the NDA. Tony brings over 30 years of industr…

  • Tony Kay is a career British diplomat who has served in Hong Kong, Eastern Europe, Canada and across Northern Africa and the Middle East. His previous role was Deputy Director for the Middle east in the FCDO, focussed on the…

  • Tony Keeling is the Transition Lead Director General for Health Protection Operations, which is part of the UK Health Security Agency . Tony joined NHS Test and Trace in May 2021 as the Director of Trace. This move followed …

  • Tony Lau-Walker is Chief Executive Officer of Eastleigh College, a General Further Education college supporting over 22,000 learners annually. With over 30 years experience in vocational education, he sits as Chair of The Wi…

  • Tony Leifer joined the Charity Commission as Board member in May 2013. He has had a distinguished career at both DJ Freeman and Olswang LLP Solicitors, at each of which he was partner and formerly Head of the Corporate Depar…

  • Tony is a senior executive leader with more than 30 years’ experience across the public and private sector, holding leadership roles at global, regional and local levels. Prior to becoming Chair of Sellafield Ltd, Tony chair…

  • Tony joined Magnox in 2014 as Waste Director and became Managing Director in 2017. For 22 years Tony has been involved extensively in the UK and international nuclear industry, in the areas of decommissioning, power generati…

  • Tony Morris (appointed in 2009) is a solicitor with over 30 years’ experience of UK and EU competition law. Before retiring in May 2009, he spent 24 years as a partner in the city firm of Linklaters specialising in the contr…

  • Tony Porter was appointed Surveillance Camera Commissioner in March 2014 and served until December 2020. He has a combination of business and law enforcement expertise. He is an intelligence specialist (most recently within …

  • Tony Poulter was appointed to the Department for Transport Operator ( DFTO ) Board as a Non Executive Director on 24 March 2025. His other roles are: a non executive member of the Department for Transport Board as a non-exec…

  • Tony Preston arrived in Rio De Janeiro in January 2020 to take up the roles of Deputy Consul-General and Deputy Director for Trade and Investment in Brazil. He is also the UK Department for International Trade’s Director for…

  • Tony Regan, Deputy Head of Mission and Director of Trade and Industry to Colombia since 2011. He has previously served as Executive Director UK Civil Nuclear Police Authority (2008 - 2011), Seconded National Expert to the Eu…

  • Tony Stoller CBE (appointed in 2009) was Chief Executive of the Radio Authority until it was subsumed into Ofcom in 2003, where he was then a Director until 2006. He is currently Chair of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Chai…

  • Tony is a chartered town planner who joined the Planning Inspectorate in 1999 following a planning career in local government. He has worked in England and Wales on appeal and development plan casework.

  • Tony van Kralingen was appointed as Non-Executive Chair of the Crown Commercial Service in May 2016. He was previously Group Director: Integrated Supply for SABMiller plc, accountable for Group Procurement, Supply Chain, Dis…

  • Tony was appointed to PHE in 2012. Career highlights: Director of Human Resources at the Health Protection Agency since April 2008 extensive range of senior human resources roles at Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust, th…

  • Tony joined Magnox in 2014 as EHSSQ Director and became Decommissioning Director in 2017. Prior to joining Magnox, Tony was Managing Director of Research Sites Restoration Limited and also worked at Dounreay, Harwell and the…

  • Torsten Bell was appointed jointly Parliamentary Secretary in HM Treasury and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Work and Pensions on 14 January 2025. He was elected as the MP for Swansea West in Ju…

  • Tracey Crouch was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Sport, Tourism and Heritage on 12 May 2015. She was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Sport and Civil Society from June 2017 to November 2018. S…

  • Tracey McDermott CBE joined the Export Guarantees Advisory Council (EGAC) in Autumn 2025. Tracey is a highly respected leader in financial services, regulation, and sustainability, with over three decades of experience spann…

  • Tracey Newman worked at the Charity Commission as Chief Operating Officer from April 2015 to August 2015, based in its Liverpool office. Tracey was previously Director of Dispute Resolution at the Ombudsman Services, and pri…

  • Tracey Waltho is Director General, Housing and Planning at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. Tracey was previously, from April 2020 to September 2021, Director General, Housing and Planning at the Min…

  • Tracey Williamson was appointed Commercial Director for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in February 2018. Tracey is an experienced international commercial leader and has worked with major blue chip organisations acros…

  • Tracy was the Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Belgrade from April 2016 to August 2019. Tracy was responsible for the effective operation of the Embassy and for deputising for the Ambassador in his absence. T…

  • Tracy Hodgkiss is Director of People and Change and has responsibility for setting the people agenda and strategy for the Planning Inspectorate. Tracy has Board level experience in organizational development, business transf…

  • Tracy joined NRS in November 2023 as General Counsel, moving from NDA where she was Head of Legal and Deputy General Counsel. Tracy studied in Scotland and is dual qualified as a lawyer in both Scotland and England / Wales. …

  • Tracy Nash joined DVLA in 2005 and was appointed Finance and Assurance Services Director in August 2022, having previously held the role on an interim basis since September 2020. Education Tracy is a Fellow Chartered Account…