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Government Departments: Communication

Asked by Mike WoodConservativeTreasuryTabled Answered 8 June 2026UIN 4140

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff in (a) her Department, (b) HM Revenue and Customs and (c) HMRC Valuation Office (i) have the status of embedded communicators and (ii) are members of the Government Communications Network.

Answered by Dan Tomlinson

In (a) HM Treasury’s Communications function, (i) 2 staff members have the status of embedded communicators and (ii) 49 staff are members of the Government Communications Network.

In (b) HM Revenue and Customs, (i) 44 staff have the status of embedded communicators and (ii) 284 staff are members of the Government Communications Network.

In (c), the Valuation Office Agency is fully integrated within HM Revenue and Customs, and its staff are included within the figures provided for HMRC.

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