Question follow-through · 21141

National Audit Office: Government Communication Service

To ask the Chairman of the Public Accounts Commission, how many headcount staff in the National Audit Office are (a) members of the Government Communication Network and (b) embedded communicators but not counted as members of that network.

answeredPublic Accounts Commission

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Answering body
Public Accounts Commission
Tabled
28 Aug 2026
Target answer date
2 Sept 2026
Answer
7 Sept 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 28 Aug 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chairman of the Public Accounts Commission, how many headcount staff in the National Audit Office are (a) members of the Government Communication Network and (b) embedded communicators but not counted as members of that network.

  2. 2 Sept 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 7 Sept 2026

    Answer published

    As an independent public body, the National Audit Office (NAO) is not part of the Government Communications profession. The NAO currently has a permanent headcount of 15 communications professionals working on external and internal communications.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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