Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether (1) Ministerial and (2) Civil Service oversight of the (a) Government Property Agency, (b) Government People Group and (c) Artificial Intelligence Taskforce will be undertaken by (i) the Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, (ii) Cabinet Office or (ii) OneGov.

The Prime Minister has established the new Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (OPMC), which includes No10, No10 North and Cabinet Office teams directly serving the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Oversight of the OPMC is by the Prime Minister and Cabinet Office Ministers.

The AI Taskforce is led by AI Minister Kanishka Narayan and is based in the OPMC. The Government People Group’s (GPG) responsibilities will be divided between the OPMC and the OneGov Delivery Agency. The Future Civil Service Group, within the OPMC, brings together reform and people policy functions formerly within GPG, whilst operational service functions formerly within GPG will be delivered by the OneGov Delivery Agency, including the Government Recruitment Service and the pensions response team. The Government Property Agency continues to be one of the executive agencies of the Cabinet Office, overseen by Cabinet Office Ministers.