Cabinet Office

:This article is about the Cabinet Office in the United Kingdom. For other Cabinet Offices see Cabinet Office (disambiguation).

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The Cabinet Office is a United Kingdom government department. Its main role is to support the Prime Minister and Cabinet in taking forward matters that require coordination across a number of Government departments.

Related Topics:
United Kingdom government department - Prime Minister - Cabinet

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As of 2005, the stated objectives of the Cabinet Office are:

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• To support the Prime Minister in leading the government
• To achieve coordination of policy and operations across government
• To improve delivery by building capacity in departments and the public services
• To promote standards that ensure good governance, including adherence to the Ministerial and Civil Service Codes

Historically, the most important part of the Cabinet Office's role was facilitating collective decision-making by the Cabinet, through running and supporting Cabinet committees. That role continues, but in the 1980s and 1990s the Cabinet Office has increasingly taken on a broader role in ensuring that Government priorities are taken forward across Whitehall. These include:

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• Ensuring delivery of the public service targets that the Government has set itself in the priority areas of education, health, transport and crime and asylum. This is carried out by the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit, set up by the Labour Government in 1997.
• e-Government — giving citizens better access to public information and services through better IT (through the e-Government Unit)
• Promoting better forms of regulation, which are less burdensome for business (through the Better Regulation Executive)
• Management of civil service staffing (in relation to issues not delegated to departments) and reform of the civil service

The Cabinet Office also has oversight of Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

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