Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office

For the unpaid aide role, see Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Cabinet Office.

The Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office is a junior ministerial role at the Cabinet Office of the United Kingdom.^[1] The post is currently held by Abena Oppong-Asare and Georgia Gould.^[2]

United Kingdom Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office
Royal Arms of His Majesty's Government
Incumbent Georgina Gould Abena Oppong-Asare since 9 July 2024
Cabinet Office
Style	Minister
Reports to	Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Secretary of State in the Cabinet Office
Nominator	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Appointer	The Monarch on advice of the Prime Minister
Term length	At His Majesty's pleasure
Salary	£102,061 as of 1st April 2022

History

Name		Portrait	Term of office		Party	Prime Minister
Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office
	Jim Murphy		5 May 2005	5 May 2006	Labour		Blair III
	Pat McFadden		5 May 2006	28 June 2007
	Gillian Merron		28 June 2007	24 January 2008			Brown
	Tom Watson		25 January 2008	5 June 2009
	Dawn Butler		3 November 2009	11 May 2010
Role merged with Parliamentary Secretary for Political and Constitutional Reform[3]
Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office Role formed out of Parliamentary Secretary for the Constitution[4]
	The Lord Bridges of Headley		29 May 2015	12 July 2016	Conservatives		Cameron (II)
	Caroline Nokes		14 June 2017	8 January 2018			May (II)
	Oliver Dowden		9 January 2018[5]	24 July 2019			Johnson (I)
	Simon Hart		24 July 2019[6]	16 December 2019
	Jeremy Quin		16 December 2019[7]	13 February 2020			Johnson (II)
	Julia Lopez		13 February 2020[8]	15 September 2021
	Heather Wheeler		8 February 2022	7 September 2022
	Brendan Clarke-Smith		8 September 2022	27 October 2022			Truss
	Alex Burghart		27 October 2022	5 July 2024			Sunak
	Abena Oppong-Asare		9 July 2024[2]	Present	Labour		Starmer
	Georgia Gould		9 July 2024[2]	Present

Responsibilities

The office holder has the following responsibilities:^[9]

• Supporting the Minister for the Cabinet Office on cross-government delivery and implementation
• Controls (commercial, digital, property)
• Commercial models
• Cyber and resilience
• Civil Service human resources and Shared Services
• Fraud, Error, Debt and Grants
• Geospatial Commission
• Government Digital Service
• Government Security Group
• Infrastructure and Projects Authority
• Government Property
• Government Commercial Function
• Public bodies and appointments policy