Cabinet department

A cabinet department or prime minister's department is a department or other government agency that directly supports the work of the government's central executive office, usually the cabinet and/or prime minister, rather than specific ministerial portfolios. Such a department is present in many parliamentary democracies. The department is roughly equivalent in function to a president's office in a presidential system of government or an office of the council of ministers in a semi-presidential system.

Typology

In many countries, such a department is called a Prime Minister's Office. In some other countries, there is a Cabinet Office. In the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister's Office is a part of the Cabinet Office; in Australia and New Zealand, there is a single department called the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. In some countries, such as Germany and Poland, the department supporting the prime minister (the Chancellor in Germany) is called the chancellery.

Self-governing states and provinces within federations that are parliamentary democracies often have similar departments, such as a premier's department or, in Australia, Department of the Premier and Cabinet.

List of cabinet or prime minister's departments

• Australia: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
  • New South Wales: Department of Premier and Cabinet
  • Queensland: Department of the Premier and Cabinet (Queensland)
  • South Australia: Department of the Premier and Cabinet
  • Victoria: Department of Premier and Cabinet
• Bangladesh:
  • Prime Minister's Office
  • Cabinet Division
• Brunei: Prime Minister's Office
• Canada:
  • Office of the Prime Minister
  • Privy Council Office
• China:
  • General Office of the State Council
• Germany: German Chancellery
• Iceland: Prime Minister's Office
• India: Prime Minister's Office
• Ireland: Department of the Taoiseach
• Israel: Prime Minister's Office
• Italy: Council of Ministers
• Japan:
  • Cabinet Secretariat
  • Cabinet Office
• Malaysia: Prime Minister's Department
• Mongolia: Cabinet Office
• Netherlands: Ministry of General Affairs
• New Zealand: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
• Norway: Office of the Prime Minister
• Philippines:
  • Office of the President
  • Cabinet Secretariat
• Poland: Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland
• Portugal: Presidency of the Council of Ministers
• Singapore: Prime Minister's Office
• Sri Lanka:
  • Cabinet Office
  • Prime Minister's Office
• Thailand: Office of the Prime Minister
• United Kingdom:
  • Cabinet Office
  • Prime Minister's Office
• United States: Executive Office of the President of the United States

Former

• Northern Ireland: Department of the Prime Minister

See also

• Privy Council Office (United Kingdom)
• Federal Chancellery of Switzerland