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Andy Burnham
Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury
Oral Answers to Questions is a regularly scheduled appearance where the Secretary of State and junior minister will answer at the Dispatch Box questions from backbench MPs
Other Commons Chamber appearances can be:Westminster Hall debates are performed in response to backbench MPs or e-petitions asking for a Minister to address a detailed issue
Written Statements are made when a current event is not sufficiently significant to require an Oral Statement, but the House is required to be informed.
Cabinet Office does not have Bills currently before Parliament
A Bill to Make provision about the maximum number of salaries that may be paid under the Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975 in respect of certain Ministerial offices.
This Bill received Royal Assent on 29th April 2026 and was enacted into law.
A Bill to remove the remaining connection between hereditary peerage and membership of the House of Lords; to make provision about resignation from the House of Lords; to abolish the jurisdiction of the House of Lords in relation to claims to hereditary peerages; and for connected purposes.
This Bill received Royal Assent on 18th March 2026 and was enacted into law.
A bill to Make provision for persons of the Roman Catholic faith to be eligible to hold the office of His Majesty’s High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
This Bill received Royal Assent on 3rd April 2025 and was enacted into law.
A Bill to extend the period within which vacancies among the Lords Spiritual are to be filled by bishops who are women.
This Bill received Royal Assent on 16th January 2025 and was enacted into law.
e-Petitions are administered by Parliament and allow members of the public to express support for a particular issue.
If an e-petition reaches 10,000 signatures the Government will issue a written response.
If an e-petition reaches 100,000 signatures the petition becomes eligible for a Parliamentary debate (usually Monday 4.30pm in Westminster Hall).
I would like there to be another General Election.
I believe the current Labour Government have gone back on the promises they laid out in the lead up to the last election.
We want an immediate general election to be held. We think the majority need and want change.
Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible
Gov Responded - 19 Nov 2024 Debated on - 24 Mar 2025I believe joining the EU would boost the economy, increase global influence, improve collaboration and provide stability & freedom. I believe that Brexit hasn't brought any tangible benefit and there is no future prospect of any, that the UK has changed its mind and that this should be recognised.
Following the publication of the Command Paper Protecting What Matters: Towards a more confident, cohesive, and resilient United Kingdom, the Government is committed to rolling out training across the Civil Service, starting with senior leaders, to improve understanding of how religious hatred manifests and how it should be addressed.
Government Skills Group is working with policy teams to agree the approach and delivery arrangements for this training, exploring commissioning options including central Cabinet Office contracts (‘Learning Frameworks’) providing Civil Service departments with approved quality-assured routes to commercial training suppliers.
I refer the Rt Hon member to the answer of 5th June 2026, PQ 3299.
No10 North is central to the Prime Minister’s commitment to get good growth in every postcode, drive devolution, and bring Government closer to the communities it serves. Mayors, employers, councils, and public services, will work in equal partnership with central government so that decisions about this country’s economic future are no longer only taken in Westminster. The cost of establishing No 10 North is covered by existing departmental budgets. Staffing costs are regularly published on GOV.UK.
No10 North is central to the Prime Minister’s commitment to get good growth in every postcode, drive devolution, and bring Government closer to the communities it serves. Mayors, employers, councils, and public services, will work in equal partnership with central government so that decisions about this country’s economic future are no longer only taken in Westminster. The cost of establishing No 10 North is covered by existing departmental budgets. Staffing costs are regularly published on GOV.UK.
As staff have been surged from a number of departments, accommodation cost information is not centrally collated. Costs are being met within existing departmental budgets.
The intelligence internships referred to in Question 16155 are not employment or vocational training; they are internship schemes.
We are assembling a new cross-Government task and finish team to identify next steps for tackling the issue of mega donors in UK politics, and putting politics under public control. This team will examine issues of illegitimate political influence and identify further measures to make political donations less beholden to ‘vested interests’.
The new team will operate in conjunction with the work already being delivered by HMG’s Defending Democracy Taskforce, which works across government to tackle the full spectrum of national security threats to our democracy.
The Test Learn and Grow programme has commissioned an independent evaluation by the Government Outcomes Lab. This is due to be published in 2028, the final year of the programme.
Kanishka Narayan MP, the Minister for Artificial Intelligence, has ministerial responsibility for the AI Security Institute, which includes its Director.
Following the machinery of government changes in July 2026, the AI Economics Institute (AIEI) will operate as a joint unit of the Cabinet Office and HM Treasury. It brings together expertise in economics, data and tech to provide robust analysis on how AI is affecting the labour market and wider economy.
A Director has been appointed, taking up post in early November 2026, with a small core team already in place and a recruitment campaign for additional roles will be launched imminently. AIEI continues to engage widely across government and beyond to ensure its work is informed by the latest evidence and expertise, including through the pre-existing Future of Work Expert Panel.
The AI Security Institute has been allocated £240 million over the Spending Review period to 2029-30, c. £60 million per year. This investment helps ensure the UK remains home to the world’s leading AI Security Institute.
As set out in my previous answer to PQ 30890, the AI Security Institute's headcount is 243, equivalent to 227.8 full time equivalent (FTE) posts (as of 12 October 2026). Of these, 109 are in technical roles and 134 are in other roles.
The government supports adults aged 19+ in England who speak English as a second or additional language to access English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) provision, funded through the Adult Skills Fund (ASF), subject to the eligibility requirements laid out in the ASF.
The English language requirement ensures that people coming to the UK have the language skills they need, whether that is to work or study in the UK or to live with their family. Being able to understand, speak, read and write in English is an important part of a person’s overall ability to integrate and engage with the wider community in the UK.
Work is also underway in the Department for Education to review ESOL content to ensure adults can gain the language skills they need for life, work and further study.
There is an established system in place for the declaration and management of special advisers' interests. As has been the case under successive administrations, interests deemed relevant for publication for special advisers in No10 and the Cabinet Office are published on an annual basis by the Cabinet Office. As set out in the answer referred to, before joining the government, Mr Allan sought and received advice on his interests. He followed the advice received.
There is an established system in place for the declaration and management of special advisers' interests. As has been the case under successive administrations, interests deemed relevant for publication for special advisers in No10 and the Cabinet Office are published on an annual basis by the Cabinet Office. As set out in the answer referred to, before joining the government, Mr Allan sought and received advice on his interests. He followed the advice received.
The Duty of Candour Directorate contains three Deputy Directors. One is full-time, and the other two are part-time.
Since the publication of guidance on branded goods in April 2025, Cabinet Office has not purchased any branded lanyards for promotional purposes. Lanyards purchased for operational purposes are not within the scope of the ban on branded goods.
An external expert advisory panel is being constituted to inform the review. Conflicts of interest will be managed in line with the appropriate policy.
The Manchester Digital Campus represents a significant step in strengthening the Government presence in the North West. The Manchester Digital Campus continues to progress in line with the milestones and delivery confidence ratings published in the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority Major Projects Annual Report 2025 to 2026.
The Cabinet Office and the Office of the Prime Minister are managed as a single entity for staffing purposes; therefore, facility time costs and staffing figures are not separated. The total cost of facility time and the number of trade union representatives for the Cabinet Office (including the Prime Minister’s Office) for 2023-24 and 2024-25 can be found published online at the following website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/public-sector-trade-union-facility-time-data
Facility time for 2025-26 was not reported, as it is no longer a requirement following the repeal of the Trade Union (Facility Time Publication Requirements) Regulations 2017 in February 2026. The Cabinet Office published facility time data for the last time in 2024-25. There were 0 employees with 100% facility time. Funding was not provided for trade union activities.
Contracting authorities undertaking a below-threshold procurement have greater flexibility in designing and running a procurement and awarding and managing the resulting contract. This flexibility might include, for example, the ability to choose to restrict the award of contracts to suppliers who are small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), or voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSEs).
Supplier assurance requirements for below threshold procurements are determined by the Contracting Authority, must not include a pre-qualification stage and must be proportionate.
Contracting authorities in central government must ensure that effective and proportionate cyber security controls are applied to mitigate supply chain risks. In contracts with certain key characteristics considered to be at a higher risk of cyber security threats, the Cyber Essentials schemes, or equivalent, should be used as set out in Procurement Policy Note 014.
Cyber Essentials is a government backed scheme to help businesses of any size protect themselves against a range of the most common cyber attacks and to demonstrate their commitment to cyber security.
Contracting authorities in central government must ensure that effective and proportionate security assurance measures are deployed in procurements, to mitigate supply chain risks. The type and levels of security assurance required will depend on the nature and risk of the contract.
The Central Digital Platform introduced a 'tell us once' functionality for baseline supplier information to streamline and simplify the bidding process.
This exercise was only carried out for consultation and reporting duties on central government.
Paragraphs 44-47 of the Civil Service Recruitment Principles set out the principles for Permanent Secretary competitions. As set out in paragraph 44, "Permanent Secretary competitions must be chaired by the First Civil Service Commissioner (or nominee), who will be responsible for ensuring that Ministers, including the Prime Minister, are fully involved in competitions in which they have an interest and that their views are relayed to the panel, and taken into account."
The requirements for the publication of the Recruitment Principles are set out in the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010.
On 21 July, the Prime Minister announced the creation of a new Office for the Prime Minister and Cabinet, and the intention to establish the OneGov Delivery Agency as an arm’s length-body. (Official Report, Statement HLWS298).
Information about departmental structures and personnel, including individual business units, is routinely published on GOV.UK as part of standard transparency reporting, available specifically at: https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/ff76be1f-4f37-4bef-beb7-32b259413be1/organogram-cabinet-office
On 21 July, the Prime Minister announced the creation of a new Office for the Prime Minister and Cabinet, and the intention to establish the OneGov Delivery Agency as an arm’s length-body. (Official Report, Statement HLWS298).
Information about departmental structures and personnel, including individual business units, is routinely published on GOV.UK as part of standard transparency reporting, available specifically at: https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/ff76be1f-4f37-4bef-beb7-32b259413be1/organogram-cabinet-office
The Special Adviser Code of Conduct outlines the expectations and requirements of Special Advisers engagement with the media. The Special Advisers’ Transparency Guidance available on GOV.UK provides further details of requirements for reporting of meetings with senior media figures.
9 Special Advisers currently have No.10 North as their primary place of work.
I refer the Member to UIN HL2322 tabled in the House of Lords:
The Prime Minister resides in the flat in 11 Downing Street and pays full council tax on the property as his primary residence.
Any publication of tax returns would be announced in the usual way.
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 11th September is attached.
The Prime Minister spoke with President Xi Jinping of China on 8 September 2026. Summaries of telephone calls and meetings held by the Prime Minister are regularly made available to the public on GOV.UK.
The European and Global Issues Secretariat held their annual away day at the UCL Olympic Village campus. CHANDCOGROUP provides catering services to parts of the Government estate as well as some university campuses- including UCL's Olympic village campus. The business unit covered the cost of refreshments on arrival and lunch for their more than 100 members of staff at the away day.
Number 10 is part of the Office for the Prime Minister and Cabinet. The Cabinet Office is the legal department of state.
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 15th September is attached.
A new AI Minister has been appointed across the Cabinet Office and the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) to drive the AI agenda. He is attending Cabinet, reporting to the First Secretary of State on AI strategy, the AI Security Institute and public sector adoption. He reports to the BIST Secretary of State on AI policy (including growth, innovation and infrastructure).
People working on government contracts should expect fair pay and good working conditions that, at a system level will reduce pressures on the public purse. Savings will be made through innovation, effective management and efficiencies.
Each Central Government Department publishes details of their contingent labour expenditure within their individual Annual Report and Accounts.
No10 North exists to get power out of Westminster, into the hands of people at a local level. It is based in existing UK Government offices in central Manchester. Heron House was already occupied by the Government and was chosen taking into account a range of factors, including speed of set up and operational requirements.
The Civil Service Commission is operationally independent of the Government.
Information about how it handles complaints can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-commission-annual-report-and-accounts-2024-to-2025/civil-service-commission-annual-report-and-accounts-2024-to-2025-html
The 2025-26 Annual Report and Accounts will be published in due course.
There is no mandatory or prescriptive policy regarding the use of pronouns in email signatures.
As has been the case under successive administrations, it is not government policy to comment on the security arrangements of government buildings and this information is withheld on national security grounds.
Details of any payments made will be published in the Annual Report and Accounts for Cabinet Office for the financial year in which the payment was made.
As set out in the Ministerial Code, the personal information which ministers disclose to those who advise them is treated in confidence.
Information on artworks in Downing Street can be searched by location on the Government Art Collection website: https://artcollection.dcms.gov.uk/?s=&display=artworkonly&search_place=Downing+Street
The Prime Minister has announced a new national commission on electoral reform, and invited all political parties to be part of its work.
Future editions of our published workforce data will reflect the Office for the Prime Minister and Cabinet and OneGov Delivery Agency. This will show once our systems have fully updated.
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 3 September 2026 to Question UIN 8059. No decision has been taken on publishing permanent secretary objectives.
As has been the policy of successive governments, the government does not comment on matters relating to the intelligence agencies.