Question follow-through · 27462
Permanent Secretaries
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Prime Minister plans to give the Cabinet Secretary powers to direct departmental Permanent Secretaries or otherwise amend civil service delegation legislation.
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
- 7 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 11 Sept 2026
- Answer
- No published answer in this record
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
Recorded timeline
7 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Prime Minister plans to give the Cabinet Secretary powers to direct departmental Permanent Secretaries or otherwise amend civil service delegation legislation.
11 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
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