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Accommodation Medical Institutions and Royal Colleges
Arts, Leisure and Sport Messenger/Security Service
Applications to use 'university' in a business name Military matters
Burial grounds - arranging closures Orders in/of Council - drafting and issuing
Charities Policy groups - administrative support
Construction Industry Privy Counsellors - arrangement of new appointments
Corporate Services Privy Council Meetings - arranging
Ecclesiastical Matters Privy Council Meetings - preparatory work
Environment Recruitment
Facilities and Corporate projects Royal Charters - production of
Finance Statutory Bodies - administering appointments
Financial Institutions Statutory Instruments - receipt and preparation
Higher Education Science, Engineering and Technology
High Sheriffs Statutory health Care Regulation
Human Resources Statutory Instruments
Local Government Veterinary matters
Management institutions

JUDITH CAROLINE 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
  • Ecclesiastical Matters

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

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: 

  • Arts, Leisure and Sport    (alphabetically A-L)
  • Charities                       (alphabetically A-L)
  • Higher Education            (alphabetically A-L)
  • Science, Engineering and Technology
  • Construction Industry
  • Environment
  • Management Institutions
  • Military Matters
  • Local Government
  • Parliamentary Questions
  • 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
  • Policy groups - administrative support
  • Royal Charters - production of
  • Statutory bodies - administering appointments
  • Statutory Instruments - receipt and preparation

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

  • Preparation of Privy Council Meetings
  • Processing of prerogative Orders in/of Council
  • Processing and production of Royal Charters
  • Healthcare Regulatory Accounts - Laying before Parliament
  • General Enquiries 

Tel: 0207 210 1035

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

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JOY HENRY
Administrative Officer with special responsibility for:
  • Royal Charters - production of
  • Burial grounds - arranging closure

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

  • Privy Counsellor details

Tel: 0207 210 1036

Email: paul.brown@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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