Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the speech by the Prime Minister, Plan for Change, on 5 December 2024 and to the Written Answer by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Cabinet Office on 24 January (HC24441), what was the evidential basis for the Prime Minister’s remarks on there being a “tepid bath of managed decline” in Whitehall; and what representations the Prime Minister has had from the Civil Service on such comments.

I refer the noble lady to the answer from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Cabinet Office of 24 January 2025, Official Report, PQ 24441.