Civil Service (United Kingdom) Andrew Marvell, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth and Anthony Trollope. Civil Service (United Kingdom) Her Majesty's Home Civil Service, also known as Her Majesty's Civil Service or the Home Civil Service, is the permanent bureaucracy or secretariat of Crown employees that supports Her Majesty's Government, which is composed of a cabinet of ministers chosen by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as well as two of the three devolved administrations: the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government, but not the Northern Ireland Executive. As in other states that employ the Westminster political system, Her
Civil Service of the People's Republic of China areas such as transportation, housing, and healthcare. The ranks also serve as a rough order of precedence when dictating official protocol when multiple officials attend the same event. The current civil service ranking system has 27 different ranks (from previously of total 15 levels) and a grade ("dangci") system within each rank (at most 14 grades for each rank) to reflect seniority and performance; a combination of rank and "dangci" ultimately determine pay and benefits. The 27 ranks are sub-divisions of 11 "levels". The following is a non-exhaustive list of party and state positions corresponding to their civil service rank.