| PHILIP | Permanent Secretary at the Department for Transport, 2012-17 (6, 6) |
| RUTNAM | Permanent Secretary at the Department for Transport, 2012-17 (6, 6) |
| TRUDY | ___ Harrison - appointed Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Transport in September (5) |
| ROMANO | Crusaders All Blacks lock 2012-17 (6) |
| EVANS | Leslie ----, former Holyrood Permanent Secretary (5) |
| DRIFT | Railway Inspectorate is initially part of the Department for Transport - but all it does is wander aimlessly (5) |
| PADS | Home Secretary at the outset treads carefully |
| PAINTBRUSH | Picasso had one hot, tense, fleeting encounter with secretary at the outset (10) |
| STEPHENDARBY | 2012-17 Bradford defender married to 2007-21 England defender Steph Houghton (7,5) |
| JOBCENTRE | Employment service offered by the Department for Work and Pensions, ___ Plus (9) |
| DSS | Agency replaced by the Department for Work and Pensions (abbr.) (3) |
| STRAIN | Pressure on Transport Secretary at first (6) |
| MALALA | ____ Yousafzai, Pakistani activist for female education and co-recipient of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 17 (6) |
| NOTATES | Nat, the top secretary at our head office in the centre of Cheltenham, is well organised and takes everything down in shorthand (7) |
| VAMPIRE | Transfer over a million pounds at first for 17/6 (7) |
| PARLIAMENT | Houses secretary at terminal for travelling |
| MORTIMER | William _, 1st Earl of Bath, British Whig politician who was George I's Secretary at War 1714-17 (8) |
| BOSTONPUBLIC | 2000s Fox series starring 32-Across as a secretary at Winslow High School: 2 wds. |
| DONNEGAN | Sonya __, secretary at Waterloo Road school (8) |
| LABOURS | Works as party secretary at first (7) |
