The chancellor of the exchequer,often abbreviated to chancellor,is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom,and head of Treasury. As one of the four Great Offices of State,the chancellor is a high-ranking member of the British Cabinet.
The Cabinet Office is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom. It is responsible for supporting the prime minister and Cabinet. It is composed of various units that support Cabinet committees and coordinate the delivery of government objectives via other departments. As of December 2021,it had over 10,200 staff,mostly civil servants,some of whom work in Whitehall. Staff working in the Prime Minister's Office are part of the Cabinet Office.
The Great Offices of State are senior offices in the UK government. They are the Prime Minister,the Chancellor of the Exchequer,the Foreign Secretary and the Home Secretary or,alternatively,three of those offices excluding the prime minister.
Christopher Ian Brian Mynott Philp is a British politician who has served as Shadow Home Secretary since November 2024. He held the post of Minister of State for Crime,Policing and Fire from October 2022 to July 2024. He was previously appointed to Liz Truss's cabinet from September to October 2022 as Chief Secretary to the Treasury and then as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General. A member of the Conservative Party,he is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Croydon South following his election in 2015.
The Prime Minister's Delivery Unit (PMDU) is a centre of government institution in the United Kingdom,providing support to the Prime Minister on public service delivery.
The Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is a senior official in the United Kingdom Civil Service who acts as principal private secretary to the prime minister of the United Kingdom. The holder of this office is traditionally the head of the Prime Minister's Office in 10 Downing Street. In the Civil Service,the role is currently graded as director general.
The UK Permanent Secretary to the Treasury is the most senior civil servant at HM Treasury. The post originated as that of Assistant Secretary to the Treasury in 1805;that office was given new duties and renamed in 1867 as a Permanent Secretaryship.
Sir Michael Charles Scholar,KCB is a British civil servant and former President of St John's College,Oxford.
Mark Philip Sedwill,Baron Sedwill,is a British diplomat and senior civil servant who served as Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service to Prime Ministers Theresa May and Boris Johnson from 2018 to 2020. He also served as the United Kingdom National Security Adviser from 2017 to 2020. He was previously the United Kingdom's Ambassador to Afghanistan from 2009 to 2010 and the NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan in 2010. He was the Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office from February 2013 to April 2017.
Mary Elizabeth Truss is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from September to October 2022. On her fiftieth day in office,she stepped down amid a government crisis,making her the shortest-serving prime minister in British history. The member of Parliament (MP) for South West Norfolk from 2010 to 2024,Truss held various Cabinet positions under three prime ministers—David Cameron,Theresa May and Boris Johnson—lastly as foreign secretary from 2021 to 2022.
Akwasi Addo Alfred Kwarteng is a British politician who served as the Chancellor of the Exchequer from September to October 2022 under Liz Truss and the Secretary of State for Business,Energy and Industrial Strategy from 2021 to 2022 under Boris Johnson. A member of the Conservative Party,he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Spelthorne in Surrey from 2010 to 2024.
Sir Oliver Robbins is a former senior British civil servant who served as the Prime Minister's Europe Adviser and the chief Brexit negotiator from 2017 to 2019. He was a controversial figure among Brexit supporters for his perceived pro-European stance. He previously served as the Permanent Secretary at the Department for Exiting the European Union from July 2016 to September 2017,and as the Prime Minister's Advisor on Europe and Global Issues from June 2016 to July 2016. Since 2019,he has been an investment advisor at Goldman Sachs.
Britannia Unchained:Global Lessons for Growth and Prosperity is a political book written by several British Conservative Party MPs and released on 13 September 2012. Its authors present a treatise,arguing that Britain should adopt a different and radical approach to business and economics or risk "an inevitable slide into mediocrity".
Lucy Jeanne Neville-Rolfe,Baroness Neville-Rolfe is a British businesswoman and politician who served as Minister of State at the Cabinet Office from September 2022 to July 2024. A member of the Conservative Party,she served in ministerial positions under prime ministers David Cameron,Theresa May,Liz Truss,and Rishi Sunak. In December 2021,she was appointed by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to lead the statutory review into the state pension age.
Victoria Mary Prentis,is a British politician and barrister. A member of the Conservative Party,Prentis served as the Member of Parliament for Banbury from 2015 until her defeat in 2024.
Anne-Marie Belinda Trevelyan is a British politician who served as Minister of State for Indo-Pacific under Rishi Sunak between October 2022 to July 2024. A member of the Conservative Party,she was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Berwick-upon-Tweed from 2015 until 2024,when she lost her seat in the 2024 General Election by Labour's David Smith. She previously served in the Cabinets of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.
The minister of state for Brexit opportunities and government efficiency was a ministerial office in the Cabinet Office in the Government of the United Kingdom. This position was created by Prime Minister Boris Johnson in February 2020 as a renaming of Minister of State for the Treasury with new responsibilities. It was a joint office with HM Treasury and the Cabinet Office from 2020 to 2022. After Jacob Rees-Mogg was appointed in February 2022,the role was made a full member of the Cabinet;he was based solely at the Cabinet Office. Following Rees-Mogg's departure on 6 September 2022,to become Secretary of State for Business,Energy and Industrial Strategy under Liz Truss,no replacement was appointed and office was abolished.
The Truss ministry began on 6 September 2022 when Liz Truss was invited by Queen Elizabeth II—two days before the monarch's death—to succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister of the United Kingdom. Johnson had resigned as leader of the Conservative Party the previous day after Truss was elected as his successor. The Truss ministry was formed from the 2019 Parliament of the United Kingdom,as a Conservative majority government.
Liz Truss's tenure as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom began on 6 September 2022 when she accepted an invitation from Queen Elizabeth II to form a government,succeeding Boris Johnson,and ended 49 days later on 25 October upon her resignation. As prime minister,she served simultaneously as First Lord of the Treasury,Minister for the Civil Service,and Minister for the Union.
On 23 September 2022,the Chancellor of the Exchequer,Kwasi Kwarteng,delivered a Ministerial Statement entitled "The Growth Plan" to the House of Commons. Widely referred to in the media as a mini-budget,it contained a set of economic policies and tax cuts such as bringing forward the planned 1% cut in the basic rate of income tax to 19%;abolishing the highest (45%) rate of income tax in England,Wales and Northern Ireland;reversing a plan announced in March 2021 to increase corporation tax from 19% to 25% from April 2023;reversing the April 2022 increase in National Insurance;and cancelling the proposed Health and Social Care Levy. Following widespread negative response to the mini-budget,the planned abolition of the 45% tax rate was reversed 10 days later,while plans to cancel the increase in corporation tax were reversed 21 days later.
