A cabinet department or prime minister's department is a department or other government agency that directly supports the work of the government's central executive office, usually the cabinet and/or

prime minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister i ...

, rather than specific ministerial portfolios. Such a department is present in many

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. The department is roughly equivalent in function to a president's office in a presidential system of government or an office of the

council of ministers A council is a group of people who come together to consult, deliberate, or make decisions. A council may function as a legislature, especially at a town, city or county/ shire level, but most legislative bodies at the state/provincial or nati ...

in a semi-presidential system.

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In many countries, such a department is called a Prime Minister's Office. In some other countries, there is a Cabinet Office. In the

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, the Prime Minister's Office is a part of the Cabinet Office; in Australia and

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, there is a single department called the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. In some countries, such as

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and

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, the department supporting the prime minister (the Chancellor in Germany) is called the chancellery. Self-governing states and provinces within

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s that are parliamentary democracies often have similar departments, such as a premier's department or, in Australia, Department of the Premier and Cabinet.

List of cabinet or prime minister's departments

* Australia: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet ** New South Wales: Department of Premier and Cabinet ** Queensland:

Department of the Premier and Cabinet (Queensland) The Department of the Premier and Cabinet is a department of the Queensland Government. It is responsible for advising and supporting the Premier and Cabinet, and for managing the state's public sector alongside the Public Service Commission. ...

** South Australia: Department of the Premier and Cabinet ** Victoria: Department of Premier and Cabinet * Bangladesh: ** Prime Minister's Office **

Cabinet Division The Cabinet Division ( bn, মন্ত্রিপরিষদ বিভাগ) is the executive office of the Prime Minister of Bangladesh. As a division of the Government of Bangladesh, the office is responsible for the executive administrat ...

* Brunei: Prime Minister's Office * Canada: ** Office of the Prime Minister * China: **

General Office of the State Council General Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China () is an administrative agency of the State Council which assists the leaders with the day to day administrative operations of the Chinese government The Government of the ...

* Germany:

German Chancellery The German Chancellery (german: Bundeskanzleramt, , more faithfully translated as ''Federal Chancellery'' or ''Office of the Federal Chancellor'') is an agency serving the executive office of the chancellor of Germany, the head of the federal go ...

* Iceland: Prime Minister's Office * India: Prime Minister's Office * Ireland:

Department of the Taoiseach The Department of the Taoiseach ( ga, Roinn an Taoisigh) is the government department of the Taoiseach, the title in Ireland for the head of government.Article 13.1.1° and Article 28.5.1° of the Constitution of Ireland. The latter provision re ...

* Israel: Prime Minister's Office * Italy:

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* Japan: ** Cabinet Secretariat ** Cabinet Office * Malaysia: Prime Minister's Department * Mongolia: Cabinet Office * Netherlands: Ministry of General Affairs * New Zealand: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet * Norway: Office of the Prime Minister *Philippines: ** Office of the President ** Cabinet Secretariat * Poland:

Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland The Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland (Polish: ''Kancelaria Prezesa Rady Ministrów''), or KPRM, is the executive office for the Prime Minister of Poland. Created under the administrative reorganization reforms by the government of Włod ...

* Portugal: Presidency of the Council of Ministers * Singapore: Prime Minister's Office * Sri Lanka: ** Cabinet Office ** Prime Minister's Office * Thailand: Office of the Prime Minister * United Kingdom: ** Cabinet Office ** Prime Minister's Office * United States: Executive Office of the President of the United States

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* Northern Ireland: Department of the Prime Minister

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List of cabinet or prime minister's departments

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