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- ↑ Government Departments and Agencies Archived 10 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine , Government, Citizens and Rights, DirectGov.
- ↑ How to be a Civil Servant Archived 20 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine , What is a Civil Servant?
- ↑ Non-ministerial Departments, Retrieved 22 January 2023