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Intelligence Services: Ministers' Private Offices

Commons · Question 113498 · Tabled 20 Feb 2026 · Cabinet Office · Official record

Answered 3 Mar 2026

Question

Asked by Mark Pritchard

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

Answer

Answered by Dan Jarvis, 3 Mar 2026

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