Minister for the Civil Service Minister over the Civil Service, it is a constitutional convention that the Ministry would always be held by the Prime Minister. The list of Ministers for the Civil Service is therefore identical to the list of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom from 1968 onwards. By the terms of the Civil Service (Management Functions) Act 1992, the Minister may delegate his or her power to ministers and others such as the Scottish Government. Prime Minister Gordon Brown appointed Tom Watson to be responsible for the civil service as the "Minister for Digital Engagement and Civil Service Issues". Mark Sedwill has
Standards of Conduct for the International Civil Service expected standards to help staff understand their role as international civil servants rather than a set of binding rules." The 2013 edition of the Standards of Conduct for the International Civil Service were drafted under the guidance of Kingston Papie Rhodes, chairman of the ICSC, and approved by the UN General Assembly in its resolution 67/257. Rhodes wrote in his foreword to the 2013 standards: The UN Staff Regulations of 1 January 2014, in Article 100, state: Standards of Conduct for the International Civil Service The document Standards of Conduct for the International Civil Service is a text document of