Cabinet Committees

Cabinet Committees exist to allow Ministers to consider broad policy options and their development in a more reflective and deliberative way, working with outside interests as appropriate. While Cabinet remains the ultimate decision-making body, the committees allow fuller, and more strategic, consideration of policy in the major cross-cutting areas.

The Committees’ policy is to conduct their business as openly as possible. Accordingly, we publish the minutes, papers and agendas of their meetings unless there are overriding reasons not to.

Minutes and papers are published as soon as possible following clearance at the next meeting but no sooner than six weeks after the respective meeting.

Material is withheld from publication on the same basis as for Cabinet. Click on the title of the Committee in the box on the left-hand side of the screen to read its terms of reference along with the agendas and minutes of the meetings.

Minutes, agendas and papers of Sub-Committees from previous administrations can also be accessed from there.