Jeremy Heywood
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Sir Jeremy Heywood KCB CVO |
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Sir Jeremy Heywood at the Civil Service Board meeting, January 2015
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| Head of the Home Civil Service | |
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Assumed office 15 July 2014 |
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| Prime Minister |
David Cameron Theresa May |
| Preceded by | Sir Bob Kerslake |
| Cabinet Secretary | |
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Assumed office 1 January 2012 |
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| Prime Minister |
David Cameron Theresa May |
| Preceded by | Sir Gus O'Donnell |
| Downing Street Permanent Secretary | |
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In office 11 May 2010 – 1 January 2012 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Office Created |
| Succeeded by | Office Abolished |
| Downing Street Chief of Staff | |
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In office 10 October 2008 – 11 May 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Stephen Carter |
| Succeeded by | Edward Llewellyn |
| Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
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In office 23 January 2008 – 11 May 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Tom Scholar |
| Succeeded by | James Bowler |
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In office 4 June 1999 – 10 July 2003 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Ivan Rogers |
| Succeeded by | Sir John Holmes |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 31 December 1961 |
| Nationality | British |
| Spouse(s) | Suzanne Elizabeth Cook |
| Alma mater |
Bootham School Hertford College, Oxford London School of Economics |
Sir Jeremy John Heywood KCB CVO (born 31 December 1961) is a senior British civil servant who has been the Cabinet Secretary since 1 January 2012, and Head of the Home Civil Service since September 2014. He has previously served twice as the Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, as well as the Downing Street Chief of Staff and the first and only Downing Street Permanent Secretary.
Heywood was educated at Bootham School,York, an independent school with a Quaker background and ethos, before taking a BA in History and Economics at Hertford College, Oxford and an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics. He also studied for a semester at Harvard Business School.
Heywood joined HM Treasury in 1992 and became the Principal Private Secretary to Chancellor Norman Lamont at the age of 30, having to help mitigate the fallout from Black Wednesday after less than a month in the job. He remained in this role throughout the 1990s under Chancellors Kenneth Clarke and Gordon Brown before being promoted to be the Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minister Tony Blair in 1999. He stayed in this position until 2003, when he left the civil service in the wake of the Hutton Inquiry where it emerged that he claimed to have never minuted meetings in the Prime Ministerial offices about David Kelly, a job he was required to do. He emerged to become a managing director of the UK Investment Banking Division at Morgan Stanley where he became embroiled in the Southern Cross Healthcare scandal that almost saw 30,000 elderly people being made homeless. Upon Gordon Brown becoming Prime Minister in 2007, Heywood returned to government as Head of Domestic Policy and Strategy at the Cabinet Office. Political commentator Peter Oborne, in the wake of this appointment described Heywood as "a perfect manifestation of everything that has gone so very wrong with the British civil service over the past 15 years."
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