Paul Jenkins, QC (Hon), is a British lawyer. Since 2006, he has been the Chief Executive and Permanent Secretary of the Treasury Solicitor's Department (TSol) and holds the official title of Her Majesty's Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor. As Treasury Solicitor, he also holds the office of the Queen's Proctor and is Head of the Government Legal Service. He took office as Treasury Solicitor in August 2006 and was appointed Queen's Counsel (honoris causa) on 30 March 2009. The rank of honorary QC, which cannot be used in professional practice, is open to members of the legal profession, the judiciary and legal scholars.
Jenkins was a practising barrister. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales in July 1977 and first joined the Government Legal Service in 1979. He is a bencher at the Middle Temple. His Government career started in TSol, but he then moved to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, before moving back to TSol as the legal adviser to the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS). From 1998, he was the legal adviser to the Lord Chancellors Department, which then became the Department of Constitutional Affairs. From 2004, until he took on the role as TSol in 2006, he was at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), where he acted as the Solicitor to the DWP and the Department of Health.[1]