Question follow-through · 37803
Public Bodies: Information Officers
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2024 to Question 16512 on Government Communication Service, if he will provide a breakdown of the 6,500 communications staff employed by each individual public body.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 12 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 17 Mar 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2024 to Question 16512 on Government Communication Service, if he will provide a breakdown of the 6,500 communications staff employed by each individual public body.
14 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Mar 2025
Answer published
I refer the Hon. Member to Question 1208, answered on the 31st July 2024.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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