Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 7 August 2026 to Question 18174 on Government Communication Service: Staff, how many full-time equivalent staff in her Department were members of the Government Communication Service in each of the last five financial years.

The Department for Transport reported the following full-time equivalent (FTE) staff in response to the annual Government Communication Service (GCS) data collection exercise:

2022: 86.10

2023: 93.43

2024: 99.01

2025: 86.30

2026: 80.38

The GCS data collection exercise is commissioned annually and provides a snapshot of staffing levels at the point the data is collected. The figures above therefore reflect the position at the time each annual return was completed, rather than financial year averages or year-end staffing figures.

All communicators are members of the Government Communication Service (GCS).