Peter Kemp (civil servant)

Sir Edward Peter Kemp, KCB (10 October 1934 – 24 June 2008), commonly known as Peter Kemp, was an English civil servant.

Kemp was educated at Millfield School, which he left in 1949.[1] An early career in the Royal Navy was cut short by illness and he followed this up with work as an accountant. Kemp entered the civil service in 1967; promoted to deputy secretary at HM Treasury in 1983, in 1988 he was made Second Permanent Secretary at in the Office of the Minister for the Civil Service at the Cabinet Office (in 1992, this became the Office of Public Service and Science); in the role, he had responsibility for implementing the Next Steps reforms which separated administrative and policy work from delivery by creating government agencies. He left the civil service in 1992.[2][3]

References

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  1. ^ Davies, John, ed. (2012). "Distinguished Old Millfieldians". Old Millfieldian Society Chronicle: 12. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  2. ^ Peter Jones, Kemp, Sir (Edward) Peter", The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed., Oxford University Press, 2012). Retrieved 11 August 2021.
  3. ^ "Sir Peter Kemp", The Independent, 18 July 2008. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
Government offices
Preceded by
Dame Anne Mueller
as Second Permanent Secretary,
Cabinet Office Management and Personnel Office
Second Permanent Secretary of the
Office of the Minister for the Civil Service

1988–1992
Succeeded by
himself
as Permanent Secretary, Office for Public Service and Science
Preceded by
himself
as Second Permanent Secretary,
Office of the Minister for the Civil Service
Permanent Secretary of the
Office for Public Service and Science

1992
Succeeded by