ABSTRACT
In England, the Civil Service is conceived of as a permanent core of nonpolitical officers, providing loyal service to the monarch and espousing no political views publicly. The quid pro quo for this total loyalty is their insulation from political harassment and executive political control. Around this concept has grown the constitutional convention which postulates that the appropriate minister will accept responsibility for the advice of his civil servants and, also, that a civil servant is not to be named in debates on the floor of the House.
