Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government why the information on the staff breakdown by public body under the Government Communication Service audit was disclosed in the FOI Internal Review response IR2025/05101 of 29 May 2025 and the Written Answer by the former Parliamentary Secretary to the Cabinet Office on 4 September 2025 (HC70468), but was not published by the Cabinet Office in Written Answer by the Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office on 24 February (HC113610).

There had been no plans to routinely publish this information as this information is collected for operational purposes.

The data provided for HC70468 had already been published in the public domain via the referenced Internal Review.