Question follow-through · 120626
Prime Minister
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 9 March 2026, to Question 117761 on Cabinet Office: Public Expenditure, whether the Prime Minister’s Office a Department in its own right.
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 13 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 17 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 18 Mar 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 9 March 2026, to Question 117761 on Cabinet Office: Public Expenditure, whether the Prime Minister’s Office a Department in its own right.
17 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Mar 2026
Answer published
The Prime Minister's Office is a business unit of the Cabinet Office.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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