Question follow-through · 100826

Cabinet Office: Social Media

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many full-time equivalent staff in 10 Downing Street have been employed for the purpose of making social media content in each of the last three years.

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Answering body
Cabinet Office
Tabled
17 Dec 2025
Target answer date
5 Jan 2026
Answer
8 Jan 2026 · 22 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 17 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many full-time equivalent staff in 10 Downing Street have been employed for the purpose of making social media content in each of the last three years.

  2. 5 Jan 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 8 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    Communications staff work across social media content as well as broader digital communications. It is therefore not possible to provide exact figures.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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