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Breakfast Briefing with JP Marks, Permanent Secretary, Scottish Government

Author WIG Date 25 Sep 2024

A recording of the WIG Breakfast Briefing with JP Marks, Permanent Secretary, Scottish Government

Theme(s)

Economic growth and prosperity

John-Paul (JP) Marks was appointed as Permanent Secretary to the Scottish Government on 1 January 2022, succeeding Leslie Evans. As principal policy adviser to the First Minister and Secretary for the Scottish Cabinet, JP has a host of responsibilities. This includes leading 7,000 civil servants working for the Scottish Government, monitoring the effective and efficient use of the Scottish Government’s £49 billion budget, and the development, implementation and communication of key policies, plus much more.

Watch this special WIG and the Scottish Government collaboration event to develop an understanding of the key priorities and scope for your organisation to work with JP’s team to achieve these tasks.

Watch now to:

• Understand the Scottish Government’s key policy priorities from growing the economy, tackling the climate emergency, ensuring high quality and sustainable public service and working towards The National Performance Framework.

• Learn where there is scope for further collaboration across Whitehall, and where the Scottish Government would like to work with the private, not-for-profit, and higher education sectors to achieve the core policy aims.

• Hear more about JP’s personal reflections on moving from Whitehall to Scottish Government, and learning on the importance of working together.



Closed captions and transcripts are available.

Please note the Q&A is not included in this recording.

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Speaker

John-Paul Marks was appointed as Permanent Secretary to the Scottish Government on 1 January 2022. Prior to this JP Marks was appointed Director General, Work and Health Services at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in April 2019. Before this, JP was a Director General for Operations on temporary promotion from March 2018.

Previous roles in the Civil Service include:

  • Operations Director and Area Director for South of England
  • Strategic Design and Planning Director in the Universal Credit Programme
  • Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
  • Head of Corporate Relations and International Policy at the UK Pensions Regulator
  • Speechwriter to the Chief Secretary to the Treasury

Current roles outside the Civil Service include:

  • Trustee, St Giles Trust and Trustee, Treloar Trust
  • Trustee, DWP Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) Fund
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