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Cabinet Office written statement – made at on 2 November 2026.
Hamish Falconer
Minister of State (Cabinet Office) (Jointly with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The Hon. Member for Shrewsbury (Julia Buckley MP) has been appointed as a full representative of the UK-EU Parliamentary Partnership Assembly in place of the Hon. Member for Stratford and Bow (Uma Kumaran MP).
The Hon. Member for Bathgate and Linlithgow (Kirsteen Sullivan MP) has been appointed as a full representative of the UK-EU Parliamentary Partnership Assembly in place of the Hon. Member for Derby North (Catherine Atkinson MP).
The Hon. Member for North Ayrshire and Arran (Irene Campbell MP) has been appointed as a substitute representative of the UK-EU Parliamentary Partnership Assembly in place of the Hon. Member for Birmingham Northfield (Laurence Turner MP).
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.
