Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office

70 Whitehall, Westminster
Department overview
FormedDecember 1916; 107 years ago (December 1916)
Preceding Department
JurisdictionGovernment of the United Kingdom
Headquarters70 Whitehall, London, United Kingdom
51°30′13″N 0°7′36″W / 51.50361°N 0.12667°W / 51.50361; -0.12667
Employees10,220 (as of December 2021)[1]
Annual budget£2.1 billion (current) & £400 million (capital) for 2011–12[2]
Minister responsible
Department executives
Child Department
Websitegov.uk/cabinet-office

The Cabinet Office is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom. It is responsible for supporting the prime minister and Cabinet.[3] It is composed of various units that support Cabinet committees and coordinate the delivery of government objectives via other departments. As of December 2021, it had over 10,200 staff, mostly civil servants, some of whom work in Whitehall. Staff working in the Prime Minister's Office are part of the Cabinet Office.

  1. ^ "Civil service employment – Table 9, Row 23". Public sector employment dataset – June 2020. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  2. ^ Budget 2011 (PDF). London: HM Treasury. 2011. p. 48. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 August 2011. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  3. ^ This should be distinguished from the prime minister's personal staff who form the Prime Minister's Office.