Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, over what period of time he plans to reduce the size of (a) his Department and (b) the civil service; and what estimate he has made of the net cost saving.

This government is committed to fundamentally reshaping the way the British state delivers and serves working people by becoming more tech-driven, productive, agile and mission-focused. This is a whole of government effort and each department will take its own decision on its individual size and shape. This includes the Cabinet Office which we are reorganising to create a more strategic, specialist, and smaller centre of government, delivering annual savings of £110 million by the financial year 2028/29.