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Accountants' Professional Bodies Medical Institutions and Royal Colleges
Arts, Leisure and Sport Military matters
Applications to use 'university' in a business name Orders in/of Council - drafting and issuing
Burial grounds - arranging closures Privy Counsellors - arranging new appointments
Charities Privy Council Meetings - arrangements

Construction Industry Privy Council Meetings - preparatory work

Corporate Services Royal Charters - printing of
Ecclesiastical matters Royal/Constitutional matters
Environment Statutory Instruments - receipt, preparation, and processing
Financial Institutions Science, Engineering and Technology
Higher Education Statutory Health Care Regulation
High Sheriffs   Veterinary matters
Local Government

Visitors' cases
Management Institutions

 

 

JUDITH SIMPSON
Clerk of the Privy Council

Overall oversight of the Privy Council Office

(Deputy Clerks - Ceri King and Meriel McCullagh).

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CERI KING
Head of Secretariat and Senior Clerk

  • Statutory Health Care Regulation
  • Medical Institutions and Royal Colleges
  • Financial Institutions
  • Privy Council Meetings - arrangements
  • Legal Profession
  • Visitors' cases 

Tel: 0207 210 1050

Email: ceri.king@pco.x.gsi.gov.uk

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MERIEL McCULLAGH
Senior Clerk

Responsible for policy work on:

  • Higher Education            (alphabetically M-Z)
  • Arts, Leisure and Sport    (alphabetically M-Z)
  • Charities                       (alphabetically M-Z)
  • Accountants' professional bodies
  • Royal/Constitutional matters
  • Veterinary matters
  • Ecclesiastical matters

Tel: 0207 210 1044

Email: meriel.mccullagh@pco.x.gsi.gov.uk

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CHRISTOPHER BERRY
Senior Clerk 

Responsible for policy work on: 

  • Higher Education            (alphabetically A-L)
  • Arts, Leisure and Sport    (alphabetically A-L)
  • Charities                       (alphabetically A-L)
  • Science, Engineering and Technology
  • Construction Industry
  • Environment
  • Management Institutions
  • Military Matters
  • Local Government
  • Appointment of High Sheriffs (England and Wales)

Tel: 0207 210 1064

Email: christopher.berry@pco.x.gsi.gov.uk

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MARTIN COURBET
Secretariat Support Team Manager

Responsible for managing the Secretariat Support Team in:

  • Orders in/of Council - drafting and issuing
  • Privy Council Meetings - preparatory work
  • Royal Charters - printing of
  • Statutory bodies - administering appointments
  • Statutory Instruments - receipt, preparation, and processing
  • Applications to use 'university' in a business name

Tel: 0207 210 1030

Email: martin.courbet@pco.x.gsi.gov.uk

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MELANIE KNOWLES
Assistant Secretariat Support Team Manager

Responsible for day to day management of:
Departmental Records Policy and Administration

  • Privy Council Meetings - preparatory work
  • Processing of prerogative Orders in/of Council
  • Royal Charters - printing of
  • Burial grounds - arranging closures
  • General Enquiries 

Tel: 0207 210 1035

Email: melanie.knowles@pco.x.gsi.gov.uk

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JOY HENRY
Administrative Officer

Tel: 0207 210 1032

Email: joy.henry@pco.x.gsi.gov.uk

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MARGARET NEWELL
Administrative Officer

Tel: 0207 210 1031

Email: margaret.newell@pco.x.gsi.gov.uk

PAUL BROWN
Administrative Officer

Tel: 0207 210 1036

Email: paul.brown@pco.x.gsi.gov.uk

 

 

KAREN JOHNSTONE
Administrative Officer

Tel: 0207 210 1018

Email: karen.johnstone@pco.x.gsi.gov.uk

DAVID MANZE

  • Accommodation and facilities

Tel:  0207 210 1052

Email: david.manze@pco.x.gsi.gov.uk

 

CARLTON GARDENS RECEPTION

Tel:  0207 210 1091



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