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Cabinet Office: Buildings

Asked by Mike WoodConservativeCabinet OfficeTabled Answered 12 May 2025UIN 49764

The question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 19 November 2024 to Question 8641 on Cabinet Office: Buildings, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of publishing a percentage figure on security and safety.

Answered by Georgia Gould

It has been the practice of successive governments not to comment, on grounds of both national security and staff safety, on the physical capacity or staffing numbers for individual buildings of the government estate.

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