Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the oral answers of the Paymaster General on 7 February 2022, on his appointment as Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister and associated Machinery of Government changes, what plans he has to (a) combine the Office of the Prime Minister and the Cabinet Office and (b) create a separate Office of the Prime Minister department.

The Government has accepted the Second Permanent Secretary’s general findings in full and is in the course of making changes. Further details will be announced in due course.

I refer the Hon. Member back to the reply I gave to her on 7 February 2022 (Hansard volume 708, from column 695).