The rise of Lazarus at DTp
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PETER LAZARUS, Deputy Secretary at the Department of Transport, will become the top civil servant in the Department on November 10, when Permanent Secretary Sir Peter Baldwin retires.
Mr Lazarus, who is 56, has been responsible for transport industries since 1976, and is a Companion of the Bath. He was educated at Westminster School and Wadham College, Oxford, and joined the Ministry of Transport in 1949.
He became private secretary to Transport Minister Ernest Marples, and was promoted to assistant secretary in 1962. He became Under Secretary in 1968, with responsibility for the railways group, and also spent two years on loan to the Treasury. He first became a Deputy Secretary in 1973, when he began a three-year spell with responsibility for housing at the Department of the Environment.
Sir Peter, who is 60, has been Permanent Secretary since 1976, and was Second Permanent Secretary at the DoE for some months before that. He was educated at the City of London School and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
His civil service career began with the Foreign Office in 1942, and he has served in the Treasury and Cabinet Office since then. From July 1966 until January 1968, he was Principal Private Secretary to Chancellors of the Exchequer James Callaghan and Roy Jenkins. The DTp's deputy secretary and principal finance officer John Rosenfeld is also retiring, on September 30, and will be succeeded by David Holmes, head of finance at the transport industries and investment division since 1972. Mr Holmes is 47, was educated at Doncaster Grammar School and Christ Church, Oxford, and joined the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation in 1957.
Mr Lazarus's successor as Deputy Secretary is another Oxford graduate, John Palmer, head of the railways directorate since 1976. He is 53, was educated at Heath Grammar School, Halifax and Queen's College, and first joined the Ministry of Housing and Local Government in 1952.
Mr Palmer has served at the Cabinet Office and the DoE.