Cabinet Office - Devolution

Devolution

The Cabinet Office has the following responsibilities at a UK national level.

• political and constitutional reform
• the Home Civil Service
• the Electoral Commission
• the Boundary Commission
• the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority

Its main counterparts in the devolved nations are as follows:

Scotland

• Office of the First Minister (supporting the Scottish Government cabinet)

Northern Ireland

• Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister (co-ordinating the Northern Ireland Executive)
• Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (social enterprise)
• Department of Finance and Personnel (the Northern Ireland Civil Service)
• Department for Social Development (civil society)

Wales