Question follow-through · 122147

Prime Minister: Email

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 9 April 2025, to Question 43463,on Prime Minister: Email, whether emails which are removed from staff inboxes after 90 days remain accessible on the Microsoft server by the Downing Stre

answeredCabinet Office

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
19 Mar 2026
Target answer date
23 Mar 2026
Answer
26 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

  1. 19 Mar 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 9 April 2025, to Question 43463,on Prime Minister: Email, whether emails which are removed from staff inboxes after 90 days remain accessible on the Microsoft server by the Downing Stre

  2. 23 Mar 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 26 Mar 2026

    Answer published

    I refer the Hon Member to the answer of 12 May 2025, Official Report, PQ 49752.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Cabinet Office: Remote Working

20 Mar 2026 · To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 9 March 2026 to Question 114464 on Cabinet Office: Conditions of Employment, what teams do the 126 employees with homeworking contracts work in.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Cabinet Office: Information Tribunal

20 Mar 2026 · To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Information Tribunal cases relating to His Department have been determined since 4 July 2024; and if he will list the reference numbers of each.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Warm Homes Agency

20 Mar 2026 · To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the guidance entitled the approvals process for the creation of new arm's-length bodies, published on 15 March 2018, whether the Cabinet Office Public Bodies Team assessed the Warm Homes Agency

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Lobbying: Finance

20 Mar 2026 · To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 16 March 2026 to Question 119901 on Lobbying: Finance, whether he holds information on grant funding for lobbying activity in relation to grants from 2024-25 onwards.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

9 Downing Street: Media

23 Mar 2026 · To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the final outturn cost was of the refurbishment of the No9 media room including VAT.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Arms Length Bodies

23 Mar 2026 · To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has made changes to the Approvals Process for the Creation of New Arm's-Length Bodies since July 2024.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Freedom of Information: Costs

23 Mar 2026 · To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to uprate Freedom of Information Act cost thresholds.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Civil Servants: Redundancy

23 Mar 2026 · To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish his Department's guidance on Mutually Agreed Exits.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Prime Minister: General Elections

23 Mar 2026 · To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Cabinet Office Propriety and Constitution Group has written guidance on whether an incumbent Prime Minister who loses his House of Commons seat at a general election remains Prime Minister.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Proof of Identity: Digital Technology

23 Mar 2026 · To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether NHS data will be integrated into the Digital ID database.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Proof of Identity: Digital Technology

23 Mar 2026 · To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what data relating to (a) children and (b) schools will be integrated into the Digital ID database.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions

23 Mar 2026 · To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department made of the potential impact of the work-in-progress data backlog for the Civil Service Pension Scheme of the outgoing supplier on Capita.