All ministers and senior officials on GOV.UK

Paul Henson was appointed Deputy Director, Finance Business Partner Operations at the Ministry of Justice in December 2018, which includes responsibility for the Legal Aid Agency. He joined the Legal Aid Agency in January 20…

Paul Holmes was Assistant Government Whip from 25 April 2024 to 5 July 2024.

Paul began his career in the FCDO in 2000 in the Scholarships Section. His Diplomatic career has included a variety of very interesting jobs in Culture, Sports and Scholarships. He has travelled the world covering for other …

Paul joined as Decommissioning Director in 2014, becoming Deputy Managing Director in 2017. Paul has 31 years of broad nuclear operations experience. This includes 23 years in programme management, nuclear waste management, …

Paul Jancar has been Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Ljubljana since November 2015. Prior to Slovenia, Paul was posted to Hong Kong, where he covered economic diplomacy. He has also served at the UK Mission …

Paul Johnston joined the UK Civil Service in 1990, working for the Ministry of Defence initially. He has served in Paris and New York and has also had a wide range of political and security roles in the Foreign and Commonwea…

Paul Joyce is one of His Majesty’s Inspectors and is the Deputy Director for Further Education & Skills. Paul joined Ofsted in 2005 as HMI having previously worked within the Further Education and Skills sector in both g…

Paul was appointed Division Head for Counter-Terrorism and Security ( CTS ) at Dstl in June 2023. Paul started his defence career in industry in 2001 and researched radar signal processing for moving ground targets, working …

Paul Kernaghan was born and educated in Belfast. He served in the Ulster Defence Regiment [1974-1977], being commissioned in 1976. On graduating from the Queen’s University of Belfast in 1978, he joined the Royal Ulster Cons…

Paul Kernaghan joined the CNPA Board in February 2013. He served in the Ulster Defence Regiment from 1974 to 1977, being commissioned in 1976. On graduating from Queen’s University Belfast in 1978, he joined the Royal Ulster…

Paul Kernaghan was appointed as the Judicial Appointment and Conduct Ombudsman in January 2016. Paul served in the Ulster Defence Regiment from 1974 to 1977, being commissioned in 1976. On graduating from Queen’s University …

Paul Kett was the Director General for Skills Group at the Department for Education until December 2022. He was also the: Chair of the DfE Digital, Data and Technology Committee Departmental Race Champion Head of the Policy …

Paul Kissack was Director General for Strategy and Change at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from September 2019 to July 2020. His previous senior civil service posts include: Deputy Chief Executive, M…

Paul is Interim Executive Director of MPP at Homes England. Paul was previously Director for High Growth Areas and New Settlements. Paul managed Homes England’s work at Northstowe in Cambridgeshire, securing planning permiss…

Paul Lambert joined Natural England in April 2007 as Director of Finance. He has held a number of roles as Executive Director Corporate Services and more recently as Chief Officer Finance and Governance. Paul is a Chartered …

Paul became Director of Communications and Policy in March 2020. He joined the Charity Commission from the Competition and Markets Authority, where he was Director of Communications and Strategy and a member of the senior le…

Paul Lincoln was the Second Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence (MOD). He was appointed in May 2023. As Second Permanent Secretary, his responsibilities included digital transformation across Defence, security and…

Paul Lowton is the Interim Director for Barring Operations at the Disclosure and Barring Service. Paul was previously Associate Director for Disclosure Service Delivery. Before joining DBS, Paul worked for the Criminal Recor…

Paul Macnaught is the Director for Ministers, Accountability and Strategy at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). He was appointed in May 2024. Paul joined the department in October 1996 and previous roles includ…

Paul Martin joined the Charity Commission as a board member in November 2016 and was appointed Chair of the Public Interest Litigation and High Risk Cases Committee in 2019. He is an adviser and writer on security, risk and …

Paul Massara is a member of the Committee on Fuel Poverty . Appointed: 4 January 2016 Reappointed: 4 January 2019 (for a 2nd term) Terms ends: 3 January 2022

Paul Maynard was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Work and Pensions from 13 November 2023 to 5 July 2024. He was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport between July…

Paul McComb is the Director of UK Exports at the Department for International Trade ( DIT ). Paul was responsible for setting up the department in 2016. He followed this by a 4-year tour in Hong Kong as Director General for …

Paul is a finance professional with 20 years’ experience in the public and private sectors. He joined the Planning Inspectorate from the Ministry of Defence, where he was Finance Transformation Programme Director for the MoD…

Paul is a qualified accountant with 25 years’ experience in finance across both the private and public sectors, including 9 years specifically in skills. He is the Board member who leads the Operations Directorate, and as Ch…

A training and development professional, Paul worked with ScottishPower between 1990 and 2007. He headed up ScottishPower Learning, a partnership between the company and its trade unions that helped train the company’s emplo…

Paul was appointed Chief Executive Officer of UK Industrial Fusion Solutions Ltd in October 2023. He joined the STEP programme in September 2020 from the Ministry of Defence, where he was Director of Submarine Acquisition at…

Paul has over 30 years’ experience working as a senior official in the UK trade union movement holding positions in several unions including GMB, Nautilus International, the Society of Radiographers and currently with the Ph…

Paul Morris was appointed Deputy Head of Mission and HM Consul at the British Embassy in Yerevan in May 2022. Previously he was Deputy Head of the FCDO’s Consular EU Policy Network in London. He has served in various oversea…

Paul Morrison started as Chief Executive of the Planning Inspectorate in December 2022. He comes to this role from the Ukraine Humanitarian Task Force where he helped create and lead the UK’s operation to allow Ukrainians di…

Paul Morton was appointed as an HM Revenue and Customs non-executive director in September 2019. He was Tax Director of the Office of Tax Simplification from March 2017 to January 2019. Before that he was Tax Director for RE…

Paul Mullins has been a mergers and acquisitions adviser for 30 years. He has also been a member of the Independent Advisory Panel of the Regional Growth Fund and served as a Commissioner on the Ownership Commission. He is c…

Paul is Director of Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) at UK Export Finance (UKEF). He has been with UKEF since May 2022 in the process bringing together digital, technology, data and change and transformations teams from a…

Paul Newby is the independent Pubs Code Adjudicator. He took up his appointment on 2 May 2016. From 1969 to 1977 Paul Newby attended Solihull School, where he is now a Governor, with primary responsibility for the school’s p…

Paul was appointed as Assistant Chief Executive (Strategic Direction of Service) in April 1995, becoming Assistant Director (Policy and Planning) after the Service Children’s Education headquarters reorganisation in Septembe…

Paul joined Building Digital UK (BDUK) as Executive Chair in December 2020 and became the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Senior Responsible Owner (SRO) in April 2021, leading the delivery of digital infrastructure investm…

Paul O’Connor started his career in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in 2013. He has worked in Somalia, New York and Brussels, and has had various roles in London, most recently leading the Political Team cov…

Paul is a Chartered Civil Engineer and a Chief Project Director with a strong engineering background and experience of Operations and Project Management having worked on major civil engineering projects in a wide variety of …

Paul Pugh was previously Registrar General for England and Wales.

Paul Rennie is British Consul General.  Based in Los Angeles, he is the senior representative of the UK government in Southern California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Hawaii, and the US Territories of American Samoa, Guam and Nor…

Paul Rew was non-executive board member in Defra from July 2011 to June 2018. He is also a non-executive director of Northumbrian Water Group plc and the Met Office, chairing their audit committees. Paul is also a member of …

Paul joined Sellafield in 1979 and has held a wide variety of leadership roles, including the commissioning of the waste vitrification lines and operations within existing nuclear facilities. His most recent role was head of…

Paul Ryder was appointed as GFSL’s Chief Executive Officer in February 2018. He is an experienced business leader and FM specialist experienced at operating in Corporate, private and public sector businesses. Before joining …

Paul Satoor became the Director of People and Transformation for the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency ( DVSA ) in September 2016. Paul had been DVSA ’s Director of Organisational Development and HR since June 2013, and wa…

Paul Scullion started as Head of the Public Finance and General Team in Treasury Legal Advisers in February 2024. He is undertaking the role as part of a job share. Career Paul was Legal Secretary to the Advocate General fro…

Paul Scully was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Tech and the Digital Economy) at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology from 7 February 2023 to 13 November 2023. He was also Minister for L…

Before his appointment to the role of ICT Director, Paul was the Access to Justice IT Director in the Ministry of Justice, accountable for IT services for HM Courts Service, Tribunals Service and several arm’s-length bodies,…