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Cabinet Office: Management

Asked by Mike WoodConservativeCabinet OfficeTabled Answered 2 December 2025UIN 92579

The question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, who the Members were of his Department's Executive Committee in 2024-25; and how many meetings each member attended.

Answered by Nick Thomas-Symonds

The following individuals were members of the Executive Committee (ExCo) at the conclusion of the Financial Year 2024-25.

  • Cat Little, Permanent Secretary and Principal Accounting Officer (Chair)

  • Madeleine Alessandri, Head of the Joint Intelligence Organisation

  • Sarah Harrison, Chief Operating Officer

  • Matt Collins, Deputy National Security Adviser

  • Darren Tierney, Director General, Propriety, Ethics & Constitution Group

  • Fiona Ryland, Government Chief People Officer

  • Vincent Devine, Government Chief Security Officer

  • Andrew Forzani, Government Chief Commercial Officer

  • Simon Baugh, Chief Executive, Government Communication Service

  • Emma Churchill, Director General, Economic & Domestic Secretariat

  • Jonathan Black, Deputy National Security Adviser and Director General, European & Global Issues

  • Kunal Patel, Deputy Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, No.10

  • Caroline Patterson, Chief Financial Officer

  • Rebecca Hedges, Acting Chief People Officer

  • Elinor McDaniell, CO Strategy Director

  • Fleur Johnson, Strategy Director, National Security Secretariat

Membership varied throughout this period, and also included the following individuals at various points.

  • Gareth Rhys Williams, Chief Commercial Officer

  • Marco Salzedo and Clare Gibbs, Interim Representatives, Government Commercial Function

  • Kathryn Al-Shemmeri, CO Chief People Officer

  • Tom Read, CEO, Government Digital Service

  • David Foley, Director, Public Bodies

  • Rich Hornby, Chief Financial Officer

  • Jean-Christophe Gray, DG Delivery Unit

  • Laura Gilbert, Chief Data Analyst

  • Tim Barrow, Foreign Policy and National Security Adviser

  • Elizabeth Perelman, Director General, Public Sector Reform and Efficiency

Collated attendance information is not held and providing it would incur a disproportionate cost.

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