Question follow-through · 17545
Prime Minister: Public Appointments
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for which public appointments the Prime Minister is directly responsible.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 3 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 5 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 11 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for which public appointments the Prime Minister is directly responsible.
5 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Prime Minister is directly responsible for public appointments to 61 bodies and offices across government departments. Individual appointments made by the Prime Minister are publicly announced at the time of appointment.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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