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Cabinet Office: Flags

Asked by Mike WoodConservativeCabinet OfficeTabled Answered 12 May 2025UIN 49765

The question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 18 November 2024 to Question 13326 on Government Departments: Flags, which flags are owned by his Department.

Answered by Georgia Gould

For the properties operated by the Government Property Agency (GPA), where flag flying forms part of its service, all buildings with flagpoles have the Union flag. In addition, buildings across the estate will have a variety of other flags depending on their function in Government. There have been no changes to the categories of flags owned since the General Election. Currently the GPA owns the following types of flags:

National

Union Flag

St George’s Cross (England)

St Andrew’s Cross (Scotland)

Y Ddraig Goch (Wales)

Flag of the Commonwealth of Nations

Flag of Ukraine

Flag of Israel

Armed Forces

British Armed Forces Flag

Red Ensign Flag

Royal Airforce Flag

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Flag

Cultural

Pride Flag

Transgender Flag

Bisexual Flag

Windrush Flag

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