Sections · PESA departmental group
Cabinet Office
The Cabinet Office and its bodies. In 2025-26 the bodies in this section spent £6.2bn on services. £1.1bn of it (18.2%) can be followed to who received it, and at most 40.8% counting payees who are named but can't be identified yet.
- Reached an identified organisation
- Reached a recipient the publisher did not name
- Reached people, counted by benefit
- Reached staff (pay) or holders of government debt (interest), followed as one published total
- Named payee, not yet identified (may be another public body)
- Not followed
How far it is followed, and why the rest can't be
- Below the publication threshold
Payments under £25,000 (central government and the NHS) or £500 (councils) are not published one by one. Some publishers list every payment anyway; most do not.
- Pay: followed to staff as one total£827mmeasured
Wages are never published person by person, and must not be. The staff costs of the 3 bodies in this section, from HM Treasury's OSCAR database (2025-26, provisional outturn), are counted as followed to their staff.
Where the records come from
Each publisher's 2025-26 payment records, and where their money went. "Identified" means matched to a registered company, charity or other organisation outside government; "named only", a payee named in the record but not yet matched; "passed on", paid to another public body.
| Publisher | Months | Records | Identified | Named only | Withheld | Passed on |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cabinet Office | 12 | 7,552 | £302m | £1.4bn | £0 | £441m |
The largest payees not yet identified
Payees paid £5m or more. Named in the records as shown, but not yet matched to a registered organisation or a public body. Some may be public bodies; until they are matched they are counted as followed by name only.
| Payee, as published | 2025-26 |
|---|---|
| CABINET OFFICE | £97m |
| 00000024 WESTMINSTER CITY COUNCIL | £66m |
| 00000565 AGP | £65m |
| GOVERNMENT PROPERTY AGENCY-2WM | £61m |
| 00000071 HM REVENUE & CUSTOMS | £42m |
| DVLA | £40m |
| QUEEN ELIZABETH TRUST | £40m |
| 00000587 EXCHEQUER PARTNERSHIP PLC | £37m |
| 10000134 WILLMOTT DIXON CONSTRUCTION LIMITED | £37m |
| 10000043 MACE CONSTRUCT LTD | £36m |
What PESA says this section spends on
| Function | 2025-26 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Social protection | £4.4bn | 72% |
| General public services | £1.7bn | 28% |
| Economic affairs | £18m | 0% |