Cabinet Office: Management

(asked on 19th November 2025) - View Source

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, who the Members were of his Department's Executive Committee in 2024-25; and how many meetings each member attended.


Answered by
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Nick Thomas-Symonds
Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office
This question was answered on 2nd December 2025

The following individuals were members of the Executive Committee (ExCo) at the conclusion of the Financial Year 2024-25.

  • Cat Little, Permanent Secretary and Principal Accounting Officer (Chair)

  • Madeleine Alessandri, Head of the Joint Intelligence Organisation

  • Sarah Harrison, Chief Operating Officer

  • Matt Collins, Deputy National Security Adviser

  • Darren Tierney, Director General, Propriety, Ethics & Constitution Group

  • Fiona Ryland, Government Chief People Officer

  • Vincent Devine, Government Chief Security Officer

  • Andrew Forzani, Government Chief Commercial Officer

  • Simon Baugh, Chief Executive, Government Communication Service

  • Emma Churchill, Director General, Economic & Domestic Secretariat

  • Jonathan Black, Deputy National Security Adviser and Director General, European & Global Issues

  • Kunal Patel, Deputy Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, No.10

  • Caroline Patterson, Chief Financial Officer

  • Rebecca Hedges, Acting Chief People Officer

  • Elinor McDaniell, CO Strategy Director

  • Fleur Johnson, Strategy Director, National Security Secretariat

Membership varied throughout this period, and also included the following individuals at various points.

  • Gareth Rhys Williams, Chief Commercial Officer

  • Marco Salzedo and Clare Gibbs, Interim Representatives, Government Commercial Function

  • Kathryn Al-Shemmeri, CO Chief People Officer

  • Tom Read, CEO, Government Digital Service

  • David Foley, Director, Public Bodies

  • Rich Hornby, Chief Financial Officer

  • Jean-Christophe Gray, DG Delivery Unit

  • Laura Gilbert, Chief Data Analyst

  • Tim Barrow, Foreign Policy and National Security Adviser

  • Elizabeth Perelman, Director General, Public Sector Reform and Efficiency

Collated attendance information is not held and providing it would incur a disproportionate cost.

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