22 December 2006
The Prime Minister has, with the agreement of the Secretary of State for Transport, approved the appointment of Robert Devereux currently Director General Road Transport, Aviation and Shipping Group at the Department of Transport, as the next Permanent Secretary at the Department for Transport.
Robert will take up this post at the end of May when the current Permanent Secretary, Sir David Rowlands, retires aged 60.
The Prime Minister has also, with the agreement of the Secretary of State for Health, approved the appointment of Hugh Taylor as Permanent Secretary at the Department Health. Hugh is currently acting Permanent Secretary in the Department of Health and will take up this post with immediate effect.
Notes to Editors
Department of Health
Hugh Taylor is acting Permanent Secretary in the Department of Health with responsibility for chairing the Departmental Board and taking forward a programme of work to enhance the Department’s capacity and capability in key areas, including policy co-ordination, planning and social care.
He joined the Home Office in 1972. Prior to 1983 his responsibilities included race relations, radio regulation and criminal justice policy. From 1983 to 1985 he was the Principal Private Secretary to the Home Secretary; from 1985 to 1987 he was head of the Prison Service division dealing with life sentence prisoners and parole; from 1988 to 1991 he was seconded to the Cabinet Office; and from 1991 to 1993 he was Head of Personnel Division in the Prison Service.
In August 1993 he was appointed as Under Secretary in the Office of Public Service and Science with the Cabinet Office, where he headed the Civil Service Employer Group, with responsibility for a range of functions including the development and implementation of three Government White Papers on the Civil Service, leadership of the Top Management Programme and the promotion of best practice on equal opportunities and staff development within the Civil Service. He was appointed to the Management Board of the Prison Service, as Director of Administration and Services in 1996.
Hugh joined the Department of Health in 1998 as Director of Human Resources for the NHS where he was responsible for launching the first national framework for managing HR in the NHS and the associated programme of modernisation in areas such as pay, equality improving working lives, workforce planning, education training and development. He led the national taskforce responsible for taking forward the proposals for expanding and developing the NHS workforce set out in the NHS Plan.
In February 2001 to Jun 2003 Hugh was appointed Director of Corporate Affairs in the Department of Health he was responsible for a range of corporate and policy functions including liaison with the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit (PMDU) and other key stakeholders in central government. Since then he has been Group Director of Strategy and Business Development, responsible for system change in health and social services, communications and Departmental corporate services.
Department of Transport
Robert Devereux began his Civil Service career in 1979, with a degree in mathematics from St Johns College, Oxford.
He began working with the Overseas Development Administration, and moved to HM Treasury in 1984. His roles there included overseeing intelligence agency spending, before leading the Defence Expenditure Team.
In 1995, he went on secondment to Guinness Brewing Worldwide.
He returned to join the Department for Social Security, just ahead of the change of Government in 1997. At that stage, he led the development of the New Deal for Lone Parents. Robert then took a new post as Fraud Strategy Director.
Following the creation of the Department for Work and Pensions, Robert became Director of Planning and Performance.
In January 2003, Robert became a Director General and the Department for Transport, where he is responsible for Road Transport, Aviation and Shipping.
Robert is married with two daughters, and lives in Kilburn, London.
Sir David Rowlands, was educated at Oxford University before starting his career with the international engineering business IMI plc. He left the private sector to join the Department of Trade and Industry in 1974. At the DTI he was appointed private secretary to the Minister of State for Industry.
He moved to the Department for Transport in 1983 where he has held a number of posts with responsibilities for finance, aviation, shipping, ports and railways. Before being appointed permanent secretary in May 2003, he was the director general for railways, aviation, logistics, maritime and security.
In this role he was central to the creation of Network Rail after Railtrack was put into administration and the delivery of pubic private partnerships for the London Underground and the National Air Traffic Services. David received a knighthood in the Birthday Honours List 2006.
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