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Sir [[Gus O'Donnell]] is a former Cabinet Secretary, head of the Civil Service, and Permanent Secretary of the Cabinet Office.<ref>[http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/about/leadership/gus/index.aspx Sir Gus O'Donnell], civilservice.gov.uk, accessed 11 April 2011.</ref> He retired at the end of 2011. He has been described as 'probably Britain's most influential cabinet secretary since the effortlessly grand Lord Butler retired in 1998'. <ref>Martin Kettle, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/22/farewell-gus-odonnell-wrong-on-government Farewell, Sir Gus O'Donnell, but you got it wrong on government], 22 December 2011, acc 31 January 2012 </ref>

O'Donnell was created a life peer as Baron O'Donnell, of Clapham in the London Borough of Wandsworth, and was introduced in the [[House of Lords]], where he sits as a Crossbencher on 12 January 2012.<ref>[http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201212/minutes/120116/ldordpap.htm#minproc House of Lords Minute of Proceedings], 12 January 2012.</ref>

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*Nicholas Watt, Patrick Wintour and Dan Sabbagh, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/apr/10/gordon-brown-hacking-inquiry-civil-service?CMP=twt_gu Gordon Brown phone-hacking inquiry halted by civil service], guardian.co.uk, 10 April 2011.

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