Simon Case

Biography

Simon Case CVO is a British civil servant who served as Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service from September 2020 to December 2024. Case was Downing Street Permanent Secretary to Prime Minister Boris Johnson from May to September 2020. That role had been vacant for eight years after Jeremy Heywood left in 2012. From January 2016 to May 2017, Case served under David Cameron and Theresa May as Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister. In September 2024, Case announced his intention to resign before the end of the year on health grounds.