Central Office of Information

Central Office of Information (COI)

Department overview
Formed	1946
Preceding Department	Ministry of Information
Dissolved	2011
Superseding Department	Cabinet Office
Jurisdiction	United Kingdom
Headquarters	Hercules House, Hercules Road, London SE1 7DU
Minister responsible	Minister for the Cabinet Office

The Central Office of Information (COI) was the UK government's marketing and communications agency. Its chief executive reported to the Minister for the Cabinet Office. It was a non-ministerial department, and became an executive agency and a trading fund subject to the Government Trading Funds Act 1973, recovering its costs from the other departments, executive agencies and publicly funded bodies which used its services.