Cabinet Office
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Contents
Background
According to the Cabinet Office website they "support the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, and ensure the effective running of government." They are the corporate headquarters for government, in partnership with HM Treasury, and take the lead in certain critical policy areas. The Cabinet Office is a ministerial department, supported by 18 agencies and public bodies. [1]
Structure
Civil Contingencies Secretariat | Joint Intelligence Committee | Joint Intelligence Organisation | Strategic Horizons Unit[2]
Cabinet Office units
- Foreign and Defence Policy Secretariat
- Economic and Domestic Affairs Secretariat
- European and Global Issues Secretariat
- Office of the Third Sector
- Social Exclusion Task Force
- Strategy Unit
- Central Sponsor for Information Assurance (CSIA)
- Knowledge and Information Management Unit (KIM)
- Independent Offices
- Government Chief Whip (Lords)
- Office of the Leader of the House of Commons
- Office of the Leader of the House of Lords
- Office of the Parliamentary Counsel (OPC)
- Transformational Government
Cabinet Office Public Bodies
- Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACOBA)
- Capacitybuilders
- Civil Service Appeal Board (CSAB)
- Commissioner for the Compact
- Committee on Standards in Public Life (CSPL)
- Futurebuilders Advisory Panel (FAP)
- House of Lords Appointments Commission (HOLAC)
- Main Honours Advisory Committee (MHAC)
- Security Commission (SC) and Security Vetting Appeals Panel (SVAP)
- Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB)
People
- David Cameron, Prime Minister - since 2010
- George Osborne, first secretary of state and chancellor of the exchequer - since 2010
- Theresa May, home secretary - since 2010
- Philip Hammond, foreign secretary - since 2014
- Iain Duncan Smith, work and pensions secretary - since 2010
- Michael Fallon, defence secretary - since 2014
- Oliver Letwin, chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - since 2015
- Jeremy Hunt, health secretary - since 2012
- Chris Grayling, leader of the house - since 2015
- Michael Gove, justice secretary - since 2015
- Nicky Morgan, education secretary - since 2014
- Baroness Stowell, leader of the House of Lords - since 2014
- Sajid Javid, business, innovation and skills secretary - since 2015
- Amber Rudd, energy and climate change secretary - since 2015
- John Whittingdale, culture, media and sport secretary - since 2015
- Liz Truss, environment, food and rural affairs secretary - since 2014
- Justine Greening, international development secretary - since 2012
- Patrick McLoughlin, transport secretary - since 2012
- Greg Clark, communities and local government secretary - since 2015
- Theresa Villiers, Northern Ireland secretary - since 2012
- Stephen Crabb, Wales secretary - since 2014
- David Mundell, Scotland secretary - since 2015
- Greg Hands, chief secretary to the Treasury - since 2015
- Mark Harper, chief whip - since 2015
- Anna Soubry, minister for small business - since 2015
- Priti Patel, minister for employment - since 2015
- Robert Halfon, minister without portfolio - since 2015
- Matthew Hancock, minister for the cabinet office and paymaster general - since 2015
- Jeremy Wright, attorney general - since 2014
- Boris Johnson, attending political cabinet but not full cabinet - since 2015
- Lord Feldman, party chairman - since 2015[4]
Special Advisers
- Simone Finn
- Henry Newman
- Martha Varney - adviser to Cabinet Office minister Oliver Letwin since 2008.
PR
- Alex Aiken, executive director for government communications.
Notes
- ↑ Cabinet Office, GOV.UK, accessed 30 September
- ↑ Francis Maude to Tessa Jowell Strategic Horizons Unit: Manpower Cabinet Office Written answers and statements, 26 June 2009
- ↑ Cabinet Office Civil Contingencies Secretariat (CCS) How We Work This is archived web content selected for preservation by The National Archives. This snapshot was taken on 31/03/2009, accessed 6 March 2010
- ↑ BBC News Election 2015: Who's Who in David Cameron's new cabinet, 12 May 2015, accessed 14 May 2015.
