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Prime Minister: Electronic Messaging

Asked by Mike WoodConservativeCabinet OfficeTabled Answered 26 March 2026UIN 121792

The question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the No10 private office uses disappearing messages on its corporate (a) WhatsApp and (b) Signal messaging.

Answered by Nick Thomas-Symonds

All official business should be conducted using official systems wherever possible. Where official information is created or received on non corporate communication devices, it must be handled in accordance with records management requirements, as set out on gov.uk: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/non-corporate-communication-channels-for-government-business/using-non-corporate-communication-channels-eg-whatsapp-private-email-sms-for-government-business-html

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