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3 unusual facts about Cabinet Office


IT Service Management Forum

The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) is part of the Efficiency and Reform Group of the Cabinet Office, a department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

Richard Titmuss

He held his chair from 1950, after brief spells in the Cabinet Office and the Social Medicine Research Unit, until his death in 1973.

The Mare's Nest

When it came to the attention of the authorities, "one night I was visited at my flat by men in belted raincoats who came and physically seized the chapter. I was summoned to the Cabinet Office, twelve men sitting around a polished table, where it was explained to me why the information was not being released and we appeal to you as an English gentleman not to release it."


Assets Recovery Agency

It brings together previous legislation, such as the Drug Trafficking Act 1994 and Part VI of the Criminal Justice Act 1988, with the changes recommended in a comprehensive report of a study conducted by the Performance and Innovation Unit of the Cabinet Office in 2000.

David Bensusan-Butt

Following the war, Butt moved to the Economic Section of the Cabinet Office and later the Treasury.

G. L. S. Shackle

Following the war, a short spell at the Cabinet Office under James Meade and at the University of Leeds led to appointment as professor of economics at the University of Liverpool, a post he held until his retirement in 1969.

Government Secure Intranet

The concept of GSi was defined by the Cabinet Office, and was turned into practical reality by the Internet Special Products group of Cable & Wireless (then known as Mercury Communications) at their Brentford premises.

Horse Guards Road

To the west of the road is St. James's Park and to the east are various government buildings, including the Horse Guards building, the Old Admiralty Buildings, the Cabinet Office, Downing Street (the entrance to which is blocked by an iron gate), the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and HM Treasury.

LinkedGov

In April 2011 Francis Maude, Minister for the Cabinet Office, welcomed LinkedGov's first HackCamp saying "Events like this weekend help us to explore innovative approaches with data and build on the momentum that has already been created behind the government’s transparency agenda".

Michael Pakenham

He served in Nairobi and Warsaw before being seconded to the Cabinet Office 1971–74 as Assistant Private Secretary, then Private Secretary, to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Geoffrey Rippon then John Davies), who at that time had special responsibilities for the co-ordination of British policy towards the European Communities.

Nick Hurd

Hurd is currently Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Charities, Social Enterprise and Volunteering at the Cabinet Office in the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition Government.

North Manchester Jamia Mosque

Scholars of the college include Waqar Azmi, UK Government's former Chief Diversity Adviser, Cabinet Office.

Open Data in the United Kingdom

In April 2007, Cabinet Office Minister Hilary Armstrong commissioned Ed Mayo and MySociety director Tom Steinberg to draft a "Power of Information Review" on how the government could serve the public's information needs better.

Social enterprise lending

Futurebuilders manages four funds: The Department of Health’s Social Enterprise Investment Fund (SEIF), The Modernisation Fund, from the Cabinet Office, The Communitybuilders Fund, on behalf of the Department of Communities and Local Government and the Office of the Third Sector and the Futurebuilders England Fund.

Wynn Normington Hugh-Jones

Jones entered the Diplomatic Service in 1947 and served in various overseas and London postings until 1971 when he was seconded first to the Lord President’s Office and then the Cabinet Office to assist in the Great Debate which preceded the United Kingdom’s entry to the European Economic Community and to help steer the European Communities Bill through Parliament.


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Bob Krueger

Krueger was reelected for a second House term in 1976 along with the election of Jimmy Carter as president, whose term was also marked by the development of an energy policy that included the creation of the Department of Energy as a Cabinet office.

Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency

During the late 1990s, its strategic role was eroded by the Cabinet Office's Central IT Unit (CITU - created by Michael Heseltine in November 1995), and in 2000 CCTA was fully subsumed into the Office of Government Commerce (OGC).

Christopher Maccabe

He joined the Northern Ireland Cabinet Office as a researcher in 1971 and was appointed Assistant Private Secretary to the Chief Minister of Northern Ireland, Brian Faulkner in December 1973.

Government Digital Service

It is overseen by the Public Expenditure Executive (Efficiency & Reform) which is co-chaired by Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude and the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander.

Hayek Lecture

1995 – The Rt Hon Francis Maude MP, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General

Henry Hopkinson, 1st Baron Colyton

He served in various positions at the British embassies in Washington and Stockholm and was also assistant private secretary to the Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, from 1932 to 1934 and First Secretary to the War Cabinet Office from 1939 to 1940.

Ian Watmore

He rejoined the Cabinet Office in September 2010 Chief Operating Officer for the newly formed Efficiency and Reform Group.

Jack Downie

In 1947 he joined the civil service, working first in the economic section of the cabinet office, and then at HM Treasury.

John Drummond, 8th Earl of Perth

After beginning a banking career, he went to Paris during the Second World War to help Noël Coward in a propaganda office, then returned to London to work in the War Cabinet office and later at the Ministry of Production.

Maria do Rosário

On 8 December 2010 President-elect Dilma Rousseff appointed Maria do Rosário to succeed Paulo Vannuchi as head of the Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic for Human Rights, a ministerial-level cabinet office.

Paul Hayter

From 1974 to 1977 he was seconded to the Cabinet Office as Private Secretary to the Leader of the House of Lords and the Government Chief Whip, serving two Leaders, Lord Shepherd (1974-1976) and Lord Peart (from 1976), and one Chief Whip, Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe.

Rosemary Pollock

A veteran of World War I and assistant to Winston Churchill, her father was also editor of the book department in the publishing firm of George Newnes, but in 1941 he re-joined the Army, afterwards working for a while at the Cabinet Office in London.

Social Exclusion Task Force

It was located in Admiralty Arch, part of the Cabinet Office's buildings in Whitehall and employed around thirty staff.