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Government Communication Service

Asked by Kevin HollinrakeConservativeCabinet OfficeTabled Answered 4 September 2025UIN 70560

The question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent estimate he has made of the number of headcount members of the Government Communication Service; and what estimate he has made of the number of embedded communications across central government that are not included with the Government Communication Service.

Answered by Georgia Gould

Government Communications is made up of around 6,000 professional communicators from across the UK, supporting and promoting the work of 25 ministerial departments, 21 non-ministerial departments and over 300 agencies and other public bodies. The list provided for the response to IR2025/05101 breaks this down further, and will be submitted for entry into the House of Commons library.

The Government Communication Service headcount can be found on Gov.uk at this link here.

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