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Civil Service
The body of Crown servants that are employed to put government policies into action and are paid wholly out of money voted annually by Parliament. Civil servants include the administrative and executive staff of central government departments (e.g. the Home Office and Treasury), including executive agencies (e.g. the Land Registry and the Prison Service); since 1999 they also include staff working for ministers of the devolved governments. The Civil Service is politically impartial and permanent, thereby providing stable administration notwithstanding changes of government. The police (not being Crown servants), the armed forces (not being civil), government ministers, and those (e.g. judges) whose salaries are charged on the Consolidated Fund are not civil servants. |