Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what was the total cost of machinery-of-government changes, including renaming and rebranding of departments, during the recent change of Government, broken down by department.

I refer Lord Kempsell to the statement made by the Rt Hon Baroness Smith of Basildon about Machinery of Government changes on 24 July 2024, HLWS18.

No additional funding is allocated to departments to implement machinery of government changes.