Question follow-through · 8641

Cabinet Office: Buildings

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2024, to Question 4663, on 70 Whitehall, how many work desks are available for civil servants in 70 Whitehall as a percentage of the staff assigned to work in that building

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Answering body: Cabinet Office
Tabled: 11 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 15 Oct 2024
Answer: 19 Nov 2024 · 39 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

11 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2024, to Question 4663, on 70 Whitehall, how many work desks are available for civil servants in 70 Whitehall as a percentage of the staff assigned to work in that building
15 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Nov 2024
Answer published
It has been the practice of successive governments not to comment, on grounds of both national security and staff safety, on the physical capacity or staffing numbers for individual buildings of the government estate.

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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