To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what (a) funding and (b) numbers of full-time equivalent staff have been allocated to the work of the Government Strategic Management Office (GSMO) over the course of financial years (i) 2020-21, (ii) 2021-22 and (iii) 2022-23; and if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the GSMO since the start of the financial year 2020-21.
Answered on
7 November 2022
The Government Strategic Management Office (GSMO) was created in the summer of 2021 when the former Prime Minister’s Implementation Unit was disbanded on the creation of the No.10 Delivery Unit. The details you have requested are below.
Since its creation, GSMO has worked with HM Treasury and No.10 to improve the collection, assessment and distribution of data on the Prime Minister’s top priority projects and programmes and departmental plans to achieve the government’s outcomes.
Period | Funding | FTE |
2020-21 | N/A | N/A |
2021-22 | £1.2m | 10 |
2022-23 | £1.1m | 11 |