Civil Service (United Kingdom) programme itself. The position of 'Minister for the Civil Service' is not part of the Civil Service as it is a political position which has always been held by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The highest ranking civil servant in the country is the Cabinet Secretary. A subsidiary title that was also held by the incumbent was "Head of the Home Civil Service" or more recently sometimes styled "Head of the Civil Service", who until recently was also the incumbent Cabinet Secretary and Permanent Secretary of the Cabinet Office. However, following the Coalition Government of David Cameron the
Standards of Conduct for the International Civil Service Standards of Conduct for the International Civil Service The document Standards of Conduct for the International Civil Service is a text document of the United Nations System that lays out a set of standards of conduct for international civil servants. These standards were introduced in 2013 by the International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) to replace the "Standards of Conduct in the International Civil Service", which had been introduced in 1954 and revised in 2001. The report on "Standards of Conduct in the International Civil Service" by the International Civil Service Advisory Board (ICSAB), which preceded the ICSC, was highly recognized.