Departments of the Government of the United Kingdom

The Lord Reed The Lord Hodge Andrew Bailey Monetary Policy Committee

A list of all ministerial departments is shown below.

Sir Chris Wormald KCBCabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service Catherine Little CBPermanent Secretary [47] Non-ministerial departments are headed by civil servants and usually have a regulatory or inspection function.

[50] A list of all non-ministerial departments is shown below.

Government departments in this third and final category can generally be split into five types:[50]