Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 5 June 2026 to Question 3763 and with reference to the Answer of of 19 January 2026 to Question 104195 on Government Communication Service: Staff, how many headcount staff in the (a) Department and (b) each of its Arm’s Length Bodies are (i) members of the Government Communication Network and (ii) embedded communicators who are not counted as members of the Government Communication Network.

The headcount for staff working in the Communications profession in DCMS as at 31 March 2026 can be found at table 8 in the statistical tables published on gov.uk as part of the Civil Service Statistics 2026:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-service-statistics-2026

This data covers the Department for Culture, Media and Sport before the Machinery of Government changes. We do not hold records of the number of GCS members employed by our ALBs.