According to the now defunct Department for Constitutional Affairs, the Prime Minister is made a Privy Counsellor as a result of taking office and should be addressed by the official title prefixed by " The Right Honourable " and not by a personal name.

* Maarten Wevers, diplomat and civil servant, current Chief Executive of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

In 1992 two reports were prepared on ASIS by officers within the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and Office of National Assessments for the Secretaries Committee on Intelligence and Security ( SCIS ) and the Security Committee of Cabinet ( SCOC ).

He worked in the Prime Minister's Department in Canberra from 1969 to 1971 before changing to journalism.

The new Department was set up by Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Labour Government in 1968 and named the Civil Service Department, known as CSD.

In late 1981 the Prime Minister announced the abolition of the Civil Service Department, transferring power over the Civil Service to the Prime Minister's Office and Cabinet Office.

When Labour came to power in 1997 he was appointed a Parliamentary Under Secretary in the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, and was promoted to Minister of State in the department as Minister for Housing and Planning from 1999 to 2001, and Minister for Local Government 2001-02, and in the again reorganised Office of the Deputy Prime Minister 2002-2005, with special responsibility for local government, English regions, electoral law, fire, health and safety and London.

After the British warned that they could no longer help Greece, and following Prime Minister Tsaldaris's visit to Washington in December 1946 to ask for American assistance, the U. S. State Department formulated a plan.

Set principally in the private office of a British Cabinet minister in the ( fictional ) Department for Administrative Affairs in Whitehall ( the sequel was set in the Prime Minister's offices at 10 Downing Street ), the series follows the ministerial career of The Rt Hon Jim Hacker MP, played by Paul Eddington.

In a long and varied career, which began with an advert for Mackeson Stout and a bit part in Dad's Army, his most famous roles were as Sir Humphrey Appleby, the Permanent Secretary of the fictional Department of Administrative Affairs in the television series Yes Minister ( and Cabinet Secretary in its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister ), for which he won four BAFTA awards, and as King George III in Alan Bennett's stage play The Madness of George III ( Olivier Award ) and the film version entitled The Madness of King George, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.

The Prime Minister is supported by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, their official residence is Premier House, Tinakori Road, Wellington.

Johari Baharum, parliamentary secretary of the Prime Minister's Department, stated that the PSD scholarships would remain quota based.

In Malaysia, the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency ( MMEA ) or Malaysian Coast Guard is part of the Malaysian Civil Service and is under the Prime Minister's Department.

In May 2006 the department was removed from the control of the Deputy Prime Minister and renamed as the Department for Communities and Local Government with Ruth Kelly as the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.

Mannerheim's great-grandfather, Count Carl Erik Mannerheim ( 1759 – 1837 ), had held a number of offices in Finland's civil service during the early years of the autonomous Russian Grand Principality of Finland, including membership in the Senate, and served as the first Prime Minister of Finland ( formally the Vice Chairman of the Economic Department of the Senate-the Senate consisted of Economic Department, later the cabinet, and the Justice Dpt, later the Supreme Court, and the formal chairman of both was the Governor General as the acting head of state ).

On the advice of the new Prime Minister, the Lord Lieutenant then created the Department of the Prime Minister.

* Terence Moran AC, Former Secretary, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet

* Ian Watt AO, Secretary, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet

In May 2008, minister in the Prime Minister's Department Zaid Ibrahim, who was also the then defacto Minister of Law announced that the CLP would be scrapped and be replaced with the Common Bar Course and the Common Bar Exam.

In 1993, she was moved to the Department of Employment, and she was promoted to Minister of State the following year.

Three of the 180 cases are currently been taken as " test cases " by the Department of Justice and policy with regard to firearms licences will be determined based on the outcome of these cases, according to the Ministerial Briefing document for the newly elected Minister for Justice, Alan Shatter.

Following the introduction of the Criminal Justice Act 2006 and its extensive and complex rewriting of the Firearms Act, the Minister for Justice at the time ( Micheal McDowell ) instituted the Firearms Consultation Panel, a panel chaired by the Minster through the Principal Officer of the Department of Justice's Firearms Section, which comprised representatives from the Gardai, Department of Sport, firearms dealers, all the national governing bodies of the shooting sports, and other stakeholders in the Firearms Act ( such as insurance providers ).

In the Republic of Ireland, the Minister for Transport, acting through the Department of Transport, is responsible for the State's road network, rail network, public transport, airports and several other areas.

The Minister of the Department of the Interior, is appointed by The Prince for one five year term, and is mainly responsible for both policing and military activity within Monaco.

Until 2005, the Lord Chancellor fused the Legislature, Executive and Judiciary, as he was the ex officio Speaker of the House of Lords, a Government Minister who sat in Cabinet and was head of the Lord Chancellor's Department which administered the courts, the justice system and appointed judges, and was the head of the Judiciary in England and Wales and sat as a judge on the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords, the highest domestic court in the entire United Kingdom, and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the senior tribunal court for parts of the Commonwealth.

Grant's first choice, Elihu B. Washburne, given the State Department only as personal favor, served 12 days in office, resigned due to " sickness ", and then was appointed Minister to France.

She appeared in " Equal Opportunities ", a 1982 episode of the BBC series Yes Minister, playing a senior civil servant in Jim Hacker's Department.

Steve Pieczenik, a former member of the U. S. State Department sent by President Jimmy Carter as a " psychological expert " to integrate the Interior Minister Francesco Cossiga's " crisis committee ", was interviewed by Emmanuel Amara in his 2006 documentary Les derniers jours d ' Aldo Moro (" The Last Days of Aldo Moro "), in which he alleged that: " We had to sacrifice Aldo Moro to maintain the stability of Italy.

The PRC Foreign Minister emphasised that the Anti-Secession Law was not a piece of unenforceable legislation, while the US Department of State spokesman Sean McCormack described Chen's policy as " unhelpful ".

In 1933, General Werner von Blomberg, the Minister of Defence, and General Walther von Reichenau, the chief of the Reichswehrs Ministerial Department, became increasingly concerned about the growing power of the SA.

His appointment was made directly on the recommendation of Lord Beaverbrook, who also recommended him as Deputy Minister of that Department at the end of the war.

In 1907 the Minister for Lands gave instructions to the Land and Survey Department that the name Middle Island was not to be used in future.

) were transferred to the Commonwealth and became the responsibility of the first Postmaster-General ( PMG ), a federal Minister overseeing the Postmaster-General's Department that managed all domestic telephone, telegraph and postal services.

The BDF, National Coast Guard, and the Immigration Department are under the Minister of Defence and Immigration, which is headed by Carlos Perdomo ; the BDF itself is commanded by Brigadier General Dario Tapia.

He has been Parliamentary Private Secretary to Ian McCartney as: Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions 2001-3, Minister without Portfolio and Party Chair 2003-06 and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry 2006 -.

After promoting Frost's appearance at the Inauguration, he persuaded the poet to return several months later to give a reading to a select audience of Cabinet members, members of Congress, and other Washington notables gathered in the State Department auditorium.

Its first Director was Michael L ' Estrange, who was later Cabinet Secretary, High Commissioner to London, and head of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

* 1979 – The United States Department of Education receives final approval from the U. S. Congress to become the 13th US Cabinet agency.

Grant did not consult with his Cabinet over the issue, and by-passed State Department procedures.

The Department is led by the Secretary of State, who is nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate and is a member of the Cabinet.

United States Secretary of State: Chief executive officer of the Department of State, member of the United States Cabinet, answers directly to the President of the United States.

The United States State Department told the French government that communist elements within the Cabinet needed to be removed.

The United States Department of Labor is a Cabinet department of the United States government responsible for occupational safety, wage and hour standards, unemployment insurance benefits, re-employment services, and some economic statistics.

* John Lombardi, Labor's Voice in the Cabinet: A History of the Department of Labor from Its Origins to 1921.

The United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development is the head of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, a member of the President's Cabinet, and thirteenth in the Presidential line of succession.

The United States Secretary of Transportation is the head of the United States Department of Transportation, a member of the President's Cabinet, and fourteenth in the Presidential line of succession.

The United States Secretary of Energy is the head of the United States Department of Energy, a member of the President's Cabinet, and fifteenth in the presidential line of succession.

The Secretary is a member of the Cabinet and second to last at 17th in the line of succession to the presidency ( the position was last until the addition of the United States Department of Homeland Security in 2006 ).

The Post Office Department ( 1792 – 1971 ) was the name of the United States Postal Service when it was a Cabinet department.

The Post Office Act of 1872 () elevated the Post Office Department to Cabinet status.

The Department is led by the Attorney General, who is nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate and is a member of the Cabinet.

The Department is administered by the Secretary of the Treasury, who is a member of the Cabinet.

In the federal government of the United States, the Attorney General is a member of the Cabinet and as head of the Department of Justice is the top law enforcement officer and lawyer for the government.

The advice of the Canadian Cabinet is the impetus for royal participation in any Canadian event, though, at present, the Chief of Protocol and his staff in the Department of Canadian Heritage are, as part of the State Ceremonial and Canadian Symbols Program, responsible for orchestrating any official events in or for Canada that involve the Royal Family.

The United States Department of Transportation ( USDOT or DOT ) is a federal Cabinet department of the United States government concerned with transportation.