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Civil Servants: Media and Public Speaking

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Question for Cabinet Office

UIN 62992, tabled on 26 June 2025

Question

Mike Wood
Conservative
Kingswinford and South Staffordshire
Commons

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answers of 3 June 2025 to Question 53890 on Civil Servants: Media and Public Speaking, and 18 June 2025 to Question 59753 on Civil Servants: Media and Public Speaking, if he will publish the guidance issued to civil servants.

Answer

Georgia Gould
Labour
Queen's Park and Maida Vale
Commons

Answered on

3 July 2025

The Civil Service Management Code makes clear that civil servants “must clear in advance material for publication, broadcasts or other public discussion which draws on official information or experience.”

As it has done for several years, the Government continues to approve public activity by civil servants on a case-by-case basis. Informal, internal guidance is available to support this decision-making process. There are no plans to publish this.

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