Cabinet Office	242 - 322-3220/8 322-2805/8 242 - 328-8294 328-2526 Contacts Wendell Major, Secretary to the Cabinet
		Churchill Building 1st Floor Bay St. P.O. Box N-7147 Nassau, N.P., The Bahamas
		Areas of Responsibilities Coordination of Ministries Government and Parliamentary Business Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management Official Gazette Hansard Government Publications Printing and Stationery Government Printing, Department of

     The Cabinet Office is headed by the Secretary to the Cabinet, a politically neutral public servant. The Cabinet Office aims to ensure that the Government delivers its priorities in a timely and efficient way and that proper collective consideration takes place when it is needed before policy decisions are taken. Its goals are excellence in policy making and responsive, high quality public services.

The Secretary to the Cabinet is responsible for the functions of the Cabinet Office, including:


• Conducting and maintaining the central decision making processes of executive Government
  
• Providing secretariat services to Cabinet
  
• Attending all Cabinet meetings to records decisions taken
  
• Maintaining and preserving the records of successive Cabinets
  
• Managing transitions between administrations and supporting continuity of government
  
• Providing advice to the Prime Minister on central government constitutional, policy and administrative issues, especially those contained in the Manual of Cabinet and Ministry Procedure.


For further information on the role of the Cabinet Office and the Secretary to the Cabinet see paragraphs Part V paragraphs 39 – 43 and Part VII paragraph 4 of the Manual of Cabinet and Ministry Procedure.



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