Government Departments: Electronic Messaging
2026-06-10 · Cabinet Office · 9074 · Official question
Question
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what conclusion the Cabinet Office’s Propriety and Ethics Team under the previous Government reached on the ownership of the electronic messages held on non-corporate devices relating to official government busi
Answer
Official information, wherever stored, is considered to be held by the Crown.I refer the Member for Brentwood and Ongar to the Government’s 2023 ‘Guidance on Using Non-Corporate Communication Channels for Government Business’, that was produced and publis...