Rayner’s New Deputy PM Office Doesn’t Have Its Own Budget – Guido Fawkes

EXC: Rayner’s New Deputy PM Office Doesn’t Have Its Own Budget

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Rayner is powering through with her expanded power base after a bruising week for the Starmer project. Her new Deputy Prime Minister’s HQ in the Cabinet Office will be run out of the housing department…

After Guido exclusively revealed that Rayner was set to get a large Cabinet Office power base with a revived Office of the Deputy Prime Minister the media followed up on Guido’s reporting. Sources close to the DPM told the Times that Rayner “would be taking direction from a 2005 document that read: “The aim of the office of the deputy prime minister is ‘creating sustainable communities’.” Guido leafed through the document which specifies that the primary activity of Prescott’s ODPM was providing more housing, improving housing quality, and improving the ratings of local authorities – basically the housing brief. Sustainable communities’ were also pursued through policies grouped into “five-year plans.” Fitting for Rayner…

Guido hears Rayner’s new office doesn’t come with its own budget – it will be funded from the Ministry of Housing. Though headcount is expected to increase, staff will come from MHCLG and not the Cabinet Office. No money left anyway…

Read the 2005 Prescott blueprint for Rayner’s office below: