Question follow-through · 47219

Home Office: Information Officers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many posts there are for (a) press, (b) media and (c) other communications staff in her Department; and what the salary band is for each post.

answeredKirsty BlackmanHome Office

About this written question

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
23 Apr 2025
Target answer date
28 Apr 2025
Answer
7 May 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 23 Apr 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many posts there are for (a) press, (b) media and (c) other communications staff in her Department; and what the salary band is for each post.

  2. 28 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 7 May 2025

    Answer published

    In the central Home Office communications team, there are a total of 127 Full Time Equivalent Government Communication Service professionals.Of this total, 35 work solely in the media discipline which covers press and media responsibilities.This is the la...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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