Written Question·Cabinet Office·UIN 113498

Intelligence Services: Ministers' Private Offices

Tabled: 20 February 2026

Answered: 3 March 2026

Question

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

Dan Jarvis

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