Talk:Permanent Secretary
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I have been through the websites of all government departments. I can find no evidence that there are 25 Permanent Secretaries and 15 Second Permanent Secretaries, as has been stated. Almost all the websites (the DTI is the only exception, since the website is being reorganised) list the senior personnel of their departments. Only the departments I have listed describe their heads as a PS, and only those I have listed describe the deputy head as an SPS. Not one lists more than one SPS. I would ask that without hard evidence to the contrary, these are not changed. One would imagine that the departments know who their own senior managers are! I suspect there is confusion arising because some heads and deputy heads of departments hold the same grades as PS and SPS, but do not actually hold the title, which is what this article is about. -- Necrothesp 01:24, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
