Question follow-through · 120844
Google: Special Advisers
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has issued guidance to special advisers on using Google Docs.
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
- 16 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 24 Mar 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
Recorded timeline
16 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has issued guidance to special advisers on using Google Docs.
18 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Mar 2026
Answer published
Special advisers are required to adhere to the Code of Conduct for Special Advisers at all times. No specific guidance has been issued centrally from the Cabinet Office to special advisers on using Google Docs.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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