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Government Communication Service: Staff

Department for Transport written question – answered at on 7 August 2026.

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Photo of Richard Holden Richard Holden Shadow Secretary of State for Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the answer of 6 July 2026 to Question 16056 on Government Communication Service: Staff, how many headcount staff in her Department are (a) members of the Government Communication Service and (b) are embedded communicators but are not counted as members of the Government Communication Service.

Photo of Justin Madders Justin Madders Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

For the 2026 Government Communication Service annual data collection return, the central Department for Transport reported 80.83 full-time equivalent staff headcount who are members of the Government Communication Service.

All embedded communicators are members of the Government Communication Service.

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  • (Citation: HC Deb, 7 August 2026, cW)

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