whitehall

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the British civil service (= officials employed to perform the work of the British government)

the group of employees and departments of the British government that are not part of its military and whose main offices are in London:

Whitehall admits that it was slow to recognise the speed with which the crisis would escalate.

The cost of running Whitehall will set taxpayers back £700m more than expected this year.