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Government: Public Opinion

Asked by Sarah PochinReform UKCabinet OfficeTabled Answered 12 January 2026UIN 103687

The question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what metrics his Department uses to assess the level of public support for the Government’s policy programme.

Answered by Nick Thomas-Symonds

Listing the endless ways the government engages with the public and assesses its relationship with the public would be fruitless, since that is a basic principle behind everything the government does.

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