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Government Departments: Standards

Asked by Tom MorrisonLiberal DemocratCabinet OfficeTabled Answered 6 May 2025UIN 47906

The question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of trends in levels of (a) customer service and (b) phone call response times across Government departments on people seeking to engage with

Answered by Georgia Gould

Departmental contact lines are not managed or run centrally. Therefore, each department is responsible for their own contact line, as well as customer service and response times.

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