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Cabinet Office: Buildings

Asked by Charlie DewhirstConservativeCabinet OfficeTabled Answered 8 September 2026UIN 23885

The question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the percentage of desks provided for staff is as a proportion of the total number of assigned staff in (a) her Department's London headquarters and the (b) Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and (c) Government Property Agency.

Answered by Cabinet Office

It has been the practice of successive governments not to comment, on grounds of both national security and staff safety, on the physical capacity or staffing numbers for individual buildings of the government estate.

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