Cabinet Office
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Roles
The Cabinet Office sits at the very centre of government and, with the Treasury, provides the 'head office' of government. The Cabinet Office has an overarching purpose of Making government work better.
The Department has three core functions that enable it to achieve this overarching purpose:
- Supporting the Prime Minister - to define and deliver the Government's objectives
- Supporting the Cabinet - to drive the coherence, quality and delivery of policy and operations across departments
- Strengthening the Civil Service - to ensure the civil service is organised effectively and has the capability in terms of skills, values and leadership to deliver the Government's objectives.
Departments
The Cabinet Office is composed of six individual secretariats:
- Economic and Domestic Affairs (EDS)
- European
- Defence and Overseas
- Civil Contingencies
- Ceremonial
- Intelligence and Security Secretariat (ISS)
Cabinet Office units:
- Central Sponsor for Information Assurance (CSIA)
- Ceremonial Secretariat
- Civil Contingencies Secretariat
- Civil Service Capability Group
- Defence and Overseas Secretariat
- Economic and Domestic Affairs Secretariat
- Emergency Planning College (EPC)
- European Secretariat
- Government Chief Whip (Lords)
- Government Communication
- Histories, Openness and Records Unit (HORU)
- Independent Offices
- Office of the Leader of the House of Commons
- Office of the Third Sector
- Parliamentary Counsel Office (PCO)
- Social Exclusion Task Force
- Prime Ministers Strategy Unit
