Terence Heiser

{{Short description|Former British senior civil servant}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific_prefix = Sir

| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|GCB|size=100%}}

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1932|5|24}}

| office = Permanent Secretary at the Department of the Environment

| minister = {{plainlist|

• Patrick Jenkin
• Kenneth Baker
• Nicholas Ridley
• Chris Patten
• Michael Heseltine

}}

| term_start = 1985

| term_end = 1992

| predecessor = Sir George Moseley

| successor = Sir Richard Wilson (later, Lord Wilson)

}}

Sir Terence ("Terry") Michael Heiser {{post-nominals|country=GBR|GCB}} (born 24 May 1932) is a former British senior civil servant.{{Cite web |title=Heiser, Sir Terence Michael |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-19752 |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO |language=en |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U19752 }}

Heiser served as Permanent Secretary at the Department of the Environment from 1985 to 1992.{{cite journal|last=Hall|first=Peter|date=1993|title=Urban development and urban policy: where have we come from?|journal=RSA Journal |volume=141 |issue=5441 |pages=511–522 |jstor=41376206|publisher=Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce}}

Heiser was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1984 New Year Honours.{{London Gazette |issue=49583 |date=30 December 1983 |page=3 |supp=y}} He was promoted to Knight Commander (KCB) in the 1987 Birthday Honours,{{London Gazette

| issue = 50948

| date = 12 June 1987

| page = 2

| supp = y

}} and to Knight Grand Cross (GCB) in the 1992 New Year Honours.{{London Gazette |issue=52767 |date=30 December 1991 |page=3 |supp=y}}