Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the No10 private office uses disappearing messages on its corporate (a) WhatsApp and (b) Signal messaging.

All official business should be conducted using official systems wherever possible. Where official information is created or received on non corporate communication devices, it must be handled in accordance with records management requirements, as set out on gov.uk: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/non-corporate-communication-channels-for-government-business/using-non-corporate-communication-channels-eg-whatsapp-private-email-sms-for-government-business-html