Ministerial Departments

• Attorney General’s Office

  Provides legal and strategic policy advice and support to the Government's Law Officers

• Cabinet Office

  Supports the Prime Minister and the Cabinet, co-ordinates and strengthens the civil service

• Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

  Looks after businesses and consumers and manages post-16 education, research and skills

• Department for Communities and Local Government

  Looks after planning, building and communities, including regeneration, and local government

• Department for Culture, Media and Sport

  Looks after culture and sport, including creative industries and tourism

• Department for Education

  Looks after young people, including child protection and education

• Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  Looks after environmental policy, manages food standards, agriculture, fisheries and rural communities.

• Department for International Development

  Looks after sustainable development and works to eliminate poverty worldwide

• Department for Transport

  Looks after the transport network

• Department for Work and Pensions

  Looks after people in work and retirement and manages the welfare system

• Department of Energy and Climate Change

  Looks after energy and climate change policies

• Department of Health

  Looks after health and social care policies and manages the NHS

• Foreign and Commonwealth Office

  Looks after the UK’s interests abroad

• HM Treasury

  Looks after the UK’s finances and economics

• Home Office

  Looks after security and order and manages immigration

• Ministry of Defence

  Looks after defence policy and the armed forces, strengthens international peace and stability

• Ministry of Justice

  Looks after the justice system, including courts, prisons and probation

• Northern Ireland Office

  Looks after Northern Ireland affairs, including devolution

• Office of the Advocate General for Scotland

  A Minister of the Crown and one of the three UK Law Officers

• Office of the Leader of the House of Commons

  Looks after government business in the House of Commons

• Office of the Leader of the House of Lords

  Looks after government business in the House of Lords

• Privy Council Office

  Looks after the secretarial duties of the Privy Council

• Scotland Office

  Looks after Scottish affairs, including devolution

• Wales Office

  Ensures the smooth working of devolution in Wales