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Cabinet Office written statement – made at on 8 January 2026.
Dan Jarvis
The Minister of State, Home Department, Minister of State (Home Office) (Security), Minister of State (Cabinet Office)
This government is today publishing a Memorandum of Understanding between the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and HMG.
It is essential that we have strong public trust in the government’s protection of sensitive personal information. This Memorandum of Understanding sets out a shared understanding of how Government and the ICO will work towards better Government data security and use.
The Memorandum of Understanding will help ensure that the measures we have in place to protect sensitive data are robust and support this government’s ambition to use new technologies to transform public services, create a modern digital government, and drive economic growth.
I have placed a copy of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Information Commissioner’s Office and HM Government in the Libraries of both Houses. The Memorandum of Understanding will also be published on GOV.UK.
The cabinet is the group of twenty or so (and no more than 22) senior government ministers who are responsible for running the departments of state and deciding government policy.
It is chaired by the prime minister.
The cabinet is bound by collective responsibility, which means that all its members must abide by and defend the decisions it takes, despite any private doubts that they might have.
Cabinet ministers are appointed by the prime minister and chosen from MPs or peers of the governing party.
However, during periods of national emergency, or when no single party gains a large enough majority to govern alone, coalition governments have been formed with cabinets containing members from more than one political party.
War cabinets have sometimes been formed with a much smaller membership than the full cabinet.
From time to time the prime minister will reorganise the cabinet in order to bring in new members, or to move existing members around. This reorganisation is known as a cabinet re-shuffle.
The cabinet normally meets once a week in the cabinet room at Downing Street.
