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Government: Departmental Organisation

My right honourable friend the Prime Minister has made the following Statement. I am today announcing a Machinery of Government change affecting HM Treasury and the Cabinet Office. Responsibility for the Office of Government Commerce and its executive agency, Buying Solutions, will transfer from the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the Minister for the Cabinet Office, and the organisations will become part of the Cabinet Office's Efficiency and Reform Group. Property functions in the Office of Government Commerce and the Shareholder Executive will combine into a single unit responsible for property efficiency and will be based in the Shareholder Executive within the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. It will report jointly to the Minister for the Cabinet Office and to the Chief Secretary as part of the Efficiency and Reform Group.