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Intelligence Services: Ministers' Private Offices

Asked by Mark PritchardConservativeCabinet OfficeTabled Answered 3 March 2026UIN 113498

The question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will require members of intelligence agencies transferring to ministerial private offices to declare confidentially to those ministers the (i) fact that they have previously served in an intelligence agenc

Answered by Dan Jarvis

As has been the policy of successive governments, the government does not comment on matters relating to the intelligence agencies.

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