Permanent Under-Secretary of State of the Home Office

This is a list of permanent under secretaries of state of the Home Office of the United Kingdom.

The permanent under secretary of state, or, permanent secretary, to the Home Office, is the most senior civil servant in the department, charged with running its affairs on a day-to-day basis.

Home Office Permanent Secretaries

• Matthew Rycroft 17 March 2020
• Sir Philip Rutnam 2017-2020
• Sir Mark Sedwill 2013– 2017
• Helen Kilpatrick 2012–2013 (acting)
• Dame Helen Ghosh 2011–2012
• Sir David Normington 2006–2010
• Sir John Gieve 2002–2006
• Sir David Omand 1997–2002
• Sir Richard Wilson 1994–1997
• Sir Clive Whitmore 1988–1994
• Sir Brian Cubbon 1979–1988
• Sir Robert Armstrong 1977–1979
• Sir Arthur Peterson 1972–1977
• Sir Philip Allen 1966–1972
• Sir Charles Cunningham 1957–1966
• Sir Frank Newsam 1948–1957
• Sir Alexander Maxwell 1938–1948
• Sir Russell Scott 1932–1938
• Sir John Anderson 1922–1932
• Sir Edward Troup 1908–1922
• Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Chalmers 1903–1908
• Sir Kenelm Digby 1895–1903
• Sir Godfrey Lushington 1885–1895#
• Hon Sir Adolphus Liddell 1867–1885
• Horatio Waddington 1848–1867
• Samuel March Phillips 1827–1848
• Henry Hobhouse 1817–27
• John Beckett [later Sir John Beckett, Bart.] 1806–1817
• John King 1792
• Scrope Barnard 1789