EO Parliamentary and Correspondence Officer


Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Salary:	£35,479 to £37,121 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	London
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	30 Oct 2026
Closing date:	16 Nov 2026

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Summary

As a Parliamentary and Correspondence Officer in the Cabinet Office, you will play a vital role at the heart of government, ensuring accurate, timely, and high-quality responses to parliamentary business and public inquiries. Working at the intersection of ministers, policy teams, and the public, you will oversee the end-to-end processing of Parliamentary Questions (PQs), Ministerial Correspondence (MC), and Treat Official letters.

You will join an inclusive, supportive, and engaging team where diverse perspectives are genuinely valued and personal growth is championed. We pride ourselves on fostering an environment where every voice is heard, collaboration is second nature, and team members look out for one another in a fast-paced setting.

Successful candidates could be placed into one of the following roles:

Parliamentary Officer:

Management of parliamentary written questions. Manage the day-to-day workflow of Written Parliamentary Questions (PQs), ensuring requests are logged, routed, drafted, reviewed, and submitted within strict statutory deadlines.
Coordinating work on petitions debates, working closely with policy teams and private offices to prepare Ministers with necessary briefing in good time
Ensuring the department is updated on Parliamentary business taking place, on a daily and weekly basis; issuing our routine “Today in Parliament emails” each day and coordinating the team’s work to update and distribute our “Parliamentary Planner” each week.
Providing flexible resource and support to the work-strands across the Parliamentary team.

Correspondence Drafter:

Working with policy teams, other government departments and private offices to draft high quality replies to ministerial and public correspondence
Managing the progression of casework to ensure responses are sent within the agreed Cabinet Office timeframe of 15-20 working days
Ensuring that casework is accurately logged, processed, and tracked via our online casework management system
Ensuring the wider Parliamentary and Correspondence team is kept informed about policy areas relevant to ongoing casework

Operations and Digital Officer:

Ensuring that casework is accurately logged and data is appropriately managed via our case management system
Successfully managing the transfer of correspondence to other departments, and managing the contribution or transfer requests received by the Cabinet Office
Supporting the maintenance of our case management system, including the training of users across the department
Opportunities to support and potentially manage small scale digital projects for PCT

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