The Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office is a junior ministerial role at the Cabinet Office of the United Kingdom.[1]
| United Kingdom Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office | |
|---|---|
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| Cabinet Office | |
| Style | Minister |
| Reports to | Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Secretary of State in the Cabinet Office |
| Nominator | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
| Appointer | The Monarch on advice of the Prime Minister |
| Term length | At His Majesty's pleasure |
| Salary | £102,061 as of 1st April 2022 |
History
| Name | Portrait | Term of office | Party | Prime Minister | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office | ||||||||
| Jim Murphy |  | 5 May 2005 | 5 May 2006 | Labour | Blair III | |||
| Pat McFadden |  | 5 May 2006 | 28 June 2007 | |||||
| Gillian Merron |  | 28 June 2007 | 24 January 2008 | Brown | ||||
| Tom Watson |  | 25 January 2008 | 5 June 2009 | |||||
| Dawn Butler |  | 3 November 2009 | 11 May 2010 | |||||
| Role merged with Parliamentary Secretary for Political and Constitutional Reform[2] | ||||||||
| Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office Role formed out of Parliamentary Secretary for the Constitution[3] | ||||||||
| The Lord Bridges of Headley |  | 29 May 2015 | 12 July 2016 | Conservatives | Cameron (II) | |||
| Caroline Nokes |  | 14 June 2017 | 8 January 2018 | May (II) | ||||
| Oliver Dowden |  | 9 January 2018[4] | 24 July 2019 | Johnson (I) | ||||
| Simon Hart |  | 24 July 2019[5] | 16 December 2019 | |||||
| Jeremy Quin |  | 16 December 2019[6] | 13 February 2020 | Johnson (II) | ||||
| Julia Lopez |  | 13 February 2020[7] | 15 September 2021 | |||||
| Heather Wheeler |  | 8 February 2022 | 7 September 2022 | |||||
| Brendan Clarke-Smith |  | 8 September 2022 | 27 October 2022 | Truss | ||||
| Alex Burghart |  | 27 October 2022 | Incumbent | Sunak | ||||
Responsibilities
The office holder has the following responsibilities:[8]
- Supporting the Minister for the Cabinet Office on cross-government delivery and implementation
- Controls (commercial, digital, property)
- Commercial models
- Cyber and resilience
- Civil Service human resources and Shared Services
- Fraud, Error, Debt and Grants
- Geospatial Commission
- Government Digital Service
- Government Security Group
- Infrastructure and Projects Authority
- Government Property
- Government Commercial Function
- Public bodies and appointments policy