Head of the Civil Service

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civil service position public office

The Head of the Civil Service is the most senior civil servant in the United Kingdom, responsible for leading and overseeing the professional civil service across government departments.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Head of the Civil Service canonical	3
Cabinet Secretary	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	civil service position ⓘ public office ⓘ
appliesToJurisdiction	UK government ⓘ surface form: United Kingdom government
appointedBy	Crown on the advice of the Prime Minister ⓘ Prime Minister ⓘ surface form: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
country	United Kingdom ⓘ
domain	executive branch of the UK government ⓘ
hasOccupationalField	civil service management ⓘ public administration ⓘ
hasRole	Civil Service reform leadership ⓘ ensuring Civil Service effectiveness ⓘ ensuring Civil Service honesty ⓘ ensuring Civil Service impartiality ⓘ ensuring Civil Service integrity ⓘ ensuring Civil Service objectivity ⓘ leadership of the Civil Service ⓘ most senior civil servant in the United Kingdom ⓘ oversight of the Civil Service ⓘ professional head of the UK Civil Service ⓘ promoting Civil Service capability ⓘ strategic management of the Civil Service ⓘ supporting the Prime Minister on Civil Service matters ⓘ talent management in the Civil Service ⓘ upholding Civil Service values ⓘ workforce planning for the Civil Service ⓘ
hasScope	all UK government departments employing civil servants ⓘ
inception	early 20th century ⓘ
isPartOf	Cabinet Office leadership ⓘ
legalForm	non-statutory office ⓘ
oftenHeldBy	Cabinet Secretary ⓘ
oversees	Civil Service Board ⓘ permanent secretaries of UK government departments ⓘ
partOf	British constitutional system ⓘ Home Civil Service ⓘ surface form: UK Civil Service
reportsTo	Prime Minister ⓘ surface form: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
responsibleFor	Civil Service capability reviews ⓘ Civil Service diversity and inclusion strategy ⓘ Civil Service ethics and conduct framework ⓘ Civil Service leadership development ⓘ Civil Service performance ⓘ Civil Service reform programmes ⓘ Civil Service senior appointments framework ⓘ Civil Service strategy ⓘ Civil Service workforce policies ⓘ Civil Service-wide coordination across departments ⓘ overall leadership of the UK Civil Service ⓘ
seat	London, England ⓘ surface form: London
workLocation	Cabinet Office ⓘ Whitehall ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Head of the Civil Service
Description of subject: The Head of the Civil Service is the most senior civil servant in the United Kingdom, responsible for leading and overseeing the professional civil service across government departments.

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Cabinet Office → hasChiefOfficial → Head of the Civil Service ⓘ

Home Civil Service → advisedBy → Head of the Civil Service ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cabinet Secretary

Propriety and Ethics Team → supports → Head of the Civil Service ⓘ