Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee
15 June 2026
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Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee Actual start House of Commons
16:23 - 16:40
Speaker 2
Order, order. Well, good afternoon, colleagues, unusually meeting on a Monday. So glad you could all make it for, I believe, Cabinet Secretary, your first appearance before a select committee since your appointment.
16:41 - 16:42
That's correct.
16:42 - 17:51
Speaker 2
Our first, our first duty, I suppose, hopefully this is right, is to congratulate you on your appointment, the first woman to hold the role, and we wish you all, we wish you the very best of luck and good fortune going forward. That's the nice bit dealt with. So, we'll kick straight into questions if we, if we may. You will have read Al Carns's resignation letter of last week, and I quote directly: "The machinery of government itself has been left to decay.
Decisions that should take days take months. Departments fight each other instead of the problem. Officials and ministers who know the truth are not always rewarded for telling it. Is that a picture of government, both as Cabinet Secretary and as a former departmental permanent secretary, that you recognize or have any sympathy with?
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