• David Cameron's pledge would go further than this by including all meetings (not just hospitality) for special advisers and - significantly - by also covering permanent secretaries, the top grade of the civil service.

    BBC: Is a wedding a meeting? What about a slumber party?

  • Assembly government officials are part of the UK civil service and its top official, Permanent Secretary Dame Gillian Morgan, is accountable to the UK Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell.

    BBC: Public Accounts Committee

  • Earlier the Iranian Ambassador met at the Foreign Office with the FCO's top civil servant and permanent under secretary, Peter Ricketts, to discuss the situation.

    BBC: Iran issues warning over UK yacht crew

  • Annan, the U.N. and Arab League special envoy to Syria, invited top diplomats from the five permanent members of the U.N.

    CNN: Syrians defiant as world powers plan talks

  • Is the new Permanent Secretary, Wales' 'top civil servant' as we tend to call Derek Jones, confident that the same failures can't and won't happen again?

    BBC: Following the money - and wincing

  • As the service developed, more unused signal capacity was devoted to it and Ceefax moved into its first permanent home in Room 7059 on the top floor at Television Centre.

    BBC: Ceefax: The early days

  • Some of those funds would be better spent on collecting better data, yet the most useful fix would be for rough sleepers to go closer to the top of the queue for permanent public housing, as happens in London with good results.

    ECONOMIST: Tolerance has its limits

  • That's because Bush's top tax priority is to make permanent various provisions of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts which are set to expire between 2005 and 2011.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Here, Headey takes a less restrained approach to evil, not by over-the-top cackling but with a semi-permanent sneer of contempt.

    FORBES: Review: Dredd 3D, A Comic Book Movie Done Right

  • To count as "senior" - the word used in the Diamond memo - that would have to mean a top official such as Sir Nicholas Macpherson, the Permanent Secretary at the Treasury.

    BBC: Barclays Banks - A Whitehall whodunit

  • Though the tubing laid on top of the trees during the test run, more permanent pipelines can be installed by laying a tube along roads or rivers, digging a trench, and burying it.

    FORBES: Startup Aims To Install Pipelines With Helicopters...Seriously!

  • Making the Bush tax cuts permanent, as Mr. McCain has pledged to do, would leave the top individual income-tax rate at 35%, the capital gains and dividends tax rates at 15% and eliminate the repetitive death tax.

    FORBES: John F. McCain

  • Permanent Secretary Derek Jones, who took up his post as the Welsh government's top civil servant last week, said action was already being taken to improve the management of grants to the third sector.

    BBC: Awema: Opponents' urgent funding question for ministers

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