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Prime Minister: Electronic Messaging

Commons · Question 121792 · Tabled 18 Mar 2026 · Cabinet Office · Official record

Answered 26 Mar 2026

Question

Asked by Mike Wood

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.

Answer

Answered by Nick Thomas-Symonds, 26 Mar 2026

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...