Question follow-through · 13821
Cabinet Office: Government Communication Service
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many headcount staff in the Department, including Downing Street, are (a) members of the Government Communication Network and (b) embedded communicators but not counted as members of the Government Communica
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 29 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 1 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 7 Jul 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many headcount staff in the Department, including Downing Street, are (a) members of the Government Communication Network and (b) embedded communicators but not counted as members of the Government Communica
1 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Jul 2026
Answer published
All embedded communicators are members of the Government Communication Service.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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