The Cabinet Secretariat (), formerly the Office of the Cabinet Secretary (), was a member agency of the

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which provided support to the

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, facilitated the exchange of information, as well as discussed and resolved issues among Cabinet members. The cabinet secretary also acted as a coordinator and integrator of the initiatives of the president. The Cabinet Secretariat was created through ''Executive Order No. 237, s. 1987''.

History

The position of Cabinet Secretary traced its origins to the War Cabinet of the Commonwealth government-in-exile, when Col. Manuel Nieto was appointed Secretary to the Cabinet by President

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in Asheville, NC. Under President Carlos P. Garcia, a Cabinet Secretariat was formally established as an attached agency of the Executive Office headed by the Executive Secretary. Under the administration of President

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, its responsibilities were transferred to the Office of the Prime Minister. Following the

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, the Cabinet Secretariat was reestablished through ''Executive Order No. 237, s. 1987'' signed by President

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. It was renamed as the Office of the Cabinet Secretary by President

Benigno Aquino III Benigno Simeon Aquino III (; born Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III; February 8, 1960 – June 24, 2021), also known as Noynoy Aquino and colloquially as PNoy, was a Filipino politician who served as the 15th president of the Philippines ...

on October 31, 2012, through ''Executive Order No. 99''. He reinstated the Office of the Cabinet Secretary as an independent body from the Presidential Management Staff, similar to its original mandate in 1987. The Cabinet Secretary was given cabinet ranking and staff support. The office underwent a reform in 2018, when President

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issued ''Executive Order No. 67'', which transferred eight agencies under it to other government agencies and renamed it back as the Cabinet Secretariat. On June 30, 2022, President

Bongbong Marcos Ferdinand "Bongbong" Romualdez Marcos Jr. (, , ; born September 13, 1957), commonly referred to by the initials BBM or PBBM, is a Filipino politician who has served as the 17th president of the Philippines since 2022. He is the second child ...

issued ''Executive Order No. 1'', which abolished the office alongside the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission. All powers and functions will be transferred to the Presidential Management Staff.

Powers and functions

According to Section 2 of ''Executive Order No. 99'', the powers and functions of the Office of the Cabinet Secretary were as follows:

Reorganization

Eight agencies under the Cabinet Secretariat were placed under the jurisdiction of other agencies when President Rodrigo Duterte reorganized the office. The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) and the Cooperative Development Authority were placed under the Department of Trade and Industry; the

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and the Philippine Commission on Women to the

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(DILG); and the National Anti-Poverty Commission, the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples and the Presidential Commission on the Urban Poor to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).

List of cabinet secretaries

References

{{Executive Departments of the Philippines

External links

The Cabinet Secretary
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