Privy Council Office (United Kingdom)

Privy Council Office
Department overview
Royal Coat of Arms as used by the Privy Council
Headquarters	Room G/04 1 Horse Guards Road London SW1A 2HQ
Employees	9
Minister responsible	David Lidington, Lord President of the Council
Department executives	Richard Tilbrook, Clerk of the Privy Council Ceri King, Head of Secretariat and Senior Clerk
Website	privycouncil.independent.gov.uk/

The Privy Council Office (PCO) provides secretariat and administrative support to the Lord President of the Council in his or her capacity of president of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council. The head of the office is the Clerk of the Privy Council. The PCO is an independent unit based in the Cabinet Office.^[1]

It has an office in Carlton Gardens.

Judicial committee of the Privy Council

Main article: Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

As well as the Privy Council itself, the Privy Council Office also supports the work of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which hears a small class of domestic cases and also acts as an appeals court for several independent Commonwealth countries, the British Overseas Territories and the British Crown dependencies, either in the course of performing the judicial function of the Privy Council, or by arrangement with the relevant countries. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council is co-located with the Supreme Court; previously it sat in the Privy Council Chamber in Downing Street.

Privy Council judges read documents and, until 1966, gave the Queen advice in the form of one opinion. Dissenting judgments are now permitted. In 2011 there were 45 appeals to the Privy Council.

References

↑ Privy Council website

External links

Work of the Privy Council Office (Privy Council website)
Official website of the Privy Council
Archive of 2003 Privy Council Office web page

Ministry of Justice of the United Kingdom

Headquarters: 102 Petty France, Westminster

Ministers	Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor Minister of State 2 Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State

Executive agencies	Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority HM Courts and Tribunals Service Legal Aid Agency National Offender Management Service (HM Prison Service National Probation Service) The National Archives Office of the Public Guardian

Non-departmental public bodies	Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service Civil Justice Council Criminal Cases Review Commission Independent Monitoring Board Information Commissioner's Office Judicial Appointments Commission Law Commission Legal Services Board Parole Board for England and Wales Sentencing Council Youth Justice Board

Significant former agencies	Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council HM Courts Service Legal Services Commission Tribunals Service Sentencing Guidelines Council

Privy Council of the United Kingdom

Positions

Membership

Committees of
the Privy Council

Current	Judicial Committee of the Privy Council Board of Trade Cabinet of the United Kingdom

Historical	Lord President's Committee Court of Star Chamber

Other

See also

Downing Street

Buildings	9 Downing Street (Chief Whip's Office) 10 Downing Street 11 Downing Street 12 Downing Street Cabinet Office Foreign and Commonwealth Office Privy Council Office

Residence	First Lord of the Treasury (Prime Minister) Second Lord of the Treasury (Chancellor of the Exchequer) Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Government Chief Whip) Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office

Prime Minister's Office	Parliamentary Private Secretary Principal Private Secretary Chief of Staff Press Secretary Director of Communications Prime Minister's Spokesman Policy Unit

Cabinet Office	Deputy Prime Minister Minister for the Cabinet Office Cabinet Secretary Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary National Security Council Joint Intelligence Committee Parliamentary Counsel Office Head of the Home Civil Service Government Cabinet Cabinet Committees Cabinet Office Briefing Room Civil Contingencies Secretariat Efficiency and Reform Group Government Digital Service

Incidents	Provisional IRA mortar attack (1991) Plebgate (2012)

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