Question follow-through · 20504
Prime Minister
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether she plans to make changes to the governance of the Office of the Prime Minister, including whether to establish it as a department in its own right.
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 21 Sept 2026 · 24 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether she plans to make changes to the governance of the Office of the Prime Minister, including whether to establish it as a department in its own right.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Sept 2026
Answer published
Cabinet Office, as a department of state, legally remains. In practice, we will now refer to No 10, No 10 North and teams directly serving the Prime Minister and Cabinet as the Office for the Prime Minister and Cabinet (OPMC). OPMC will ensure that the ce...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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