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Sunday, July 02, 2023

The Baron Kerslake 1955-2023

 Lord Kerslake, Crossbench life peer, and sometime senior civil servant died 1 July, 2023. He was 68.

He was a senior civil servant, and was the Head of the Home Civil Service, after the retirement of the former holder, the Cabinet Secretary, Sir Gus O'Donnell on 31 December 2011 until September 2014.

Robert Walter (Bob) Kerslake was born 28 February, 1955. He was raised to the peerage for life in 2015, as Baron Kerslake, of Endcliffe in the City of Sheffield. He was introduced as a crossbench life peer in the House of Lords on 17 March 2015.

He was Permanent Secretary at the Department for Communities and Local Government. In December 2014 he was appointed the Chair of King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to begin in June 2015, and from July 2018 chaired the UK2070 Commission focusing on city and regional inequalities in the UK.

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