Permanent Secretary To The Treasury - Permanent Secretaries To The Treasury

Permanent Secretaries To The Treasury

• George Alexander Hamilton (1867–1870)
• Sir Ralph Lingen (1870–1885)
• Sir Reginald Welby (1885–1894)
• Sir Edward Hamilton (1885–1907) (joint)
• Sir Francis Mowatt (1894–1903) (joint)
• Sir George Murray (1903–1911) (joint)
• Sir Robert Chalmers (1911–1913)
• Sir John Bradbury (1913–1919) (joint)
• Sir T. L. Heath (1913–1919) (joint)
• Sir Robert Chalmers (1916–1919)
• Sir Warren Fisher (1919–1939)
• Sir Horace Wilson (1939–1942)
• Sir Richard Hopkins (1942–1945)
• Sir Edward Bridges (1945–1956)
• Sir Norman Brook (1956–1963) (joint)
• Sir Roger Makins (1956–1959) (joint)
• Sir Frank Lee (1960–1962) (joint)
• Sir William Armstrong (1962–1968) (joint)
• Sir Laurence Helsby (1963–1968) (joint)
• Sir Douglas Allen (1968–1974)
• Sir Douglas Wass (1974–1983)
• Sir Peter Middleton (1983–1991)
• Sir Terence Burns (1991–1998)
• Sir Andrew Turnbull (1998–2002)
• Sir Gus O'Donnell (2002–2005)
• Sir Nicholas Macpherson (2005–present)

Since March 2009, Tom Scholar has served as the Treasury's Second Permanent Secretary. The post of Head of the Government Economic Service had been held by Sir Nicholas Stern (now Lord Stern of Brentford) until June 2007, since when it has been jointly held by Vicky Pryce, Chief Economic Adviser and Director General of Economics at BIS, and Dave Ramsden, Managing Director, Macroeconomic and Fiscal Policy Directorate.