Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
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The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister is a department of the British government. It was formed in May 2002 and is led by the Deputy Prime Minister, currently John Prescott. It is a successor to the Department for Transport, Environment and the Regions.
It responsible for the following issues, according to their website (as of Feb 2005)
- Building Regulations
- Civil Resilience
- Devolution
- Fire
- Government Offices
- Homelessness
- Housing
- Local Government
- Neighbourhood Renewal Unit
- Planning
- Regions
- Regional Co-ordination Unit
- Science and Research
- Social Exclusion Unit
- Sustainable Communities
- Urban Policy
The department has many offices including 26 Whitehall, Eland House and Ashdown House in London.
Ministers
The Department is headed by John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister. Since the re-shuffle after the 2005 general election, another minister from the Department, the Minister of Communities and Local Government, David Miliband, is a Cabinet position.
Junior ministers in the department are
- Phil Woolas - Minister for Local Government
- Yvette Cooper - Minister for Housing and Planning
- Jim Fitzpatrick, Baroness Andrews - Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State
See also
External link
- Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (http://www.odpm.gov.uk)
- Organisational chart (http://www.odpm.gov.uk/stellent/groups/odpm_about/documents/page/odpm_about_029314.pdf) (PDF)