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Top officials on birthday honours list
18th June 2010 at 8:48:17 by Civil Service World
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Peter Housden, currently permanent secretary at the Department for Communities and Local Government – but soon to move to the Scottish Government – was given a knighthood. Lesley Strathie, permanent secretary and chief executive of HMRC, was made a dame.
Seven senior civil servants were made Companions of the Order of Bath. Other top public sector workers honoured include Janet Paraskeva, the first civil service commissioner, who was made a dame.
Professor John Beddington, the government’s chief scientific adviser, was knighted for services to science; and Janet Gaymer, commissioner for public appointments, was also made a dame.