Question follow-through · 20517
Government Digital Service: Senior Civil Servants
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether the Interim Director General of the Digital Transformation Group is a permanent or temporary civil servant.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 23 Sept 2026 · 26 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
More questions by this MP on Culture, media and sport
- Digital ID Advisory Group · 4 Sept 2026
- Proof of Identity: Digital Technology · 7 Sept 2026
- Proof of Identity: Digital Technology · 7 Sept 2026
Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether the Interim Director General of the Digital Transformation Group is a permanent or temporary civil servant.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Sept 2026
Answer published
The interim Director General for Digital Transformation was appointed as a temporary civil servant on a fixed term contract.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Digital ID Advisory Group
4 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 28 August 2026 to Question 17353 on Digital ID Advisory Group, whether this group has been disbanded.
Proof of Identity: Digital Technology
7 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the answer of 3 September 2026, to Question HL2688, on Proof of Identity: Digital Technology, and with reference to the answer of 9 December 2025, to Question 96190, on Ident
Proof of Identity: Digital Technology
7 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, further to the answer of 3 September 2026, to Question HL2688, on Proof of Identity: Digital Technology, how much was spent on social media influences for Digital ID.