Cabinet Office Homepage

Ministers & Government Business

The Cabinet Office provides information about government ministers and other government-wide business, including honours and appointments, and propriety and ethics.

Ministers

• Cabinet Office ministers
  Details of ministers currently in the Cabinet Office.
• Ministerial responsibilities
  Details of every government minister's responsibilities and contact details for their private offices, plus information about government departments, executive agencies and government offices for the regions.
• Ministerial and senior management speeches
  Speeches by Cabinet Office ministers and senior officials.

Cabinet Secretariat and Cabinet Committees

• Cabinet Secretariats and Cabinet Committees
  Explains the nature of the Cabinet Secretariat and the role it plays in managing Cabinet and Cabinet Committees.

Consultations

• Limiting pre-release access to statistics: a consultation document
  The consultation document sets out how, as a part of the Governance of Britain programme of constitutional renewal, the Government is proposing to tighten the rules and principles under which access to official statistics in their final form can be granted ahead of their publication

Government communication

• Government communication [External website]
  Communication is an integral part of government. Government Communication helps provide strategic advice on cross government issues. It also supports the Government Communication Network (GCN) helping share best practice and raise professional standards of communicators across government. The group also advises on propriety relating to communciation issues.

Legislation

• Legislative programme
  Guidance on the procedures for preparing and taking primary legislation through Parliament.
• Parliamentary Counsel Office (PCO) [External website]
  A specialised team of lawyers dealing in drafting Government Bills for introduction into Parliament and related Parliamentary business.

Honours

• UK Honours system
  Information about the UK honours system, including instructions for how to make a nomination, and recent honours lists.

Appointments and Oversight

• Public Appointments Unit [External website]
  Information on public appointments to the boards of national and regional public bodies and details of how you can apply.
• House of Lords Appointments Commission (HOLAC) [External website]
  HoLAC is responsible for recommending non–party–political nominees to become life peers in the House of Lords and for vetting party–political nominations.
• Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments (OCPA) [External website]
  OCPA regulates, monitors, reports and advises on ministerial appointments to public bodies in the UK.
• Civil Service Commissioners [External website]
  The Civil Service Commissioners' role is to standards for recruitment so that appointments are made on merit, and to hear appeals under the Civil Service Code.
• Propriety and Ethics
  Information and guidance of propriety and ethics issues in public life.
• The Civil Service Appeal Board (CSAB) [External website]
  The Civil Service Appeal Board deals with civil servants' appeals on dismissal and other related issues.
• Committee on Standards in Public Life [External website]
  Monitoring the effectiveness of arrangements to ensure the highest standards of propriety in public life.