diff --git a/examples/nuxt-app/test/features/search-listing/result-items.feature b/examples/nuxt-app/test/features/search-listing/result-items.feature
index 69f91e0454..c60d1290ff 100644
--- a/examples/nuxt-app/test/features/search-listing/result-items.feature
+++ b/examples/nuxt-app/test/features/search-listing/result-items.feature
@@ -17,3 +17,31 @@ Feature: Result items
       | Accessibility guidelines | tide-search-result-card  |
       | Small business grant     | tide-grant-search-result |
       | GovHack 2022 is coming   | tide-search-result       |
+
+  @mockserver
+  Example: Result contents from elasticsearch can be customised to exclude fields
+    Given I load the page fixture with "/search-listing/result-items/page"
+    And the search listing config has the following excludes added to source
+      | key             |
+      | nid             |
+      | field_node_site |
+    Then the page endpoint for path "/search-results" returns the loaded fixture
+    And the search network request is stubbed with fixture "/search-listing/result-items/response" and status 200
+
+    When I visit the page "/search-results"
+    Then the search listing page should have 4 results
+    And the search network request should be called with the "/search-listing/result-items/request-source-exclude" fixture
+
+  @mockserver
+  Example: Result contents from elasticsearch can be customised to include fields
+    Given I load the page fixture with "/search-listing/result-items/page"
+    And the search listing config has the following includes added to source
+      | key           |
+      | title         |
+      | field_summary |
+    Then the page endpoint for path "/search-results" returns the loaded fixture
+    And the search network request is stubbed with fixture "/search-listing/result-items/response" and status 200
+
+    When I visit the page "/search-results"
+    Then the search listing page should have 4 results
+    And the search network request should be called with the "/search-listing/result-items/request-source-include" fixture
diff --git a/examples/nuxt-app/test/fixtures/search-listing/result-items/request-source-exclude.json b/examples/nuxt-app/test/fixtures/search-listing/result-items/request-source-exclude.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2dde0c2607
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/nuxt-app/test/fixtures/search-listing/result-items/request-source-exclude.json
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+{
+  "query": {
+    "bool": {
+      "must": [
+        {
+          "match_all": {}
+        }
+      ],
+      "filter": [
+        {
+          "terms": {
+            "type": [
+              "news",
+              "grant",
+              "event",
+              "landing_page"
+            ]
+          }
+        },
+        {
+          "terms": {
+            "field_node_site": [
+              8888
+            ]
+          }
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  },
+  "size": 20,
+  "from": 0,
+  "sort": [
+    {
+      "title.keyword": "asc"
+    }
+  ],
+  "_source": {
+    "exclude": ["nid", "field_node_site"]
+  }
+}
diff --git a/examples/nuxt-app/test/fixtures/search-listing/result-items/request-source-include.json b/examples/nuxt-app/test/fixtures/search-listing/result-items/request-source-include.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fb0a3f512a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/nuxt-app/test/fixtures/search-listing/result-items/request-source-include.json
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+{
+  "query": {
+    "bool": {
+      "must": [
+        {
+          "match_all": {}
+        }
+      ],
+      "filter": [
+        {
+          "terms": {
+            "type": [
+              "news",
+              "grant",
+              "event",
+              "landing_page"
+            ]
+          }
+        },
+        {
+          "terms": {
+            "field_node_site": [
+              8888
+            ]
+          }
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  },
+  "size": 20,
+  "from": 0,
+  "sort": [
+    {
+      "title.keyword": "asc"
+    }
+  ],
+  "_source": {
+    "include": [
+      "title",
+      "field_summary"
+    ]
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/ripple-test-utils/step_definitions/content-types/listing.ts b/packages/ripple-test-utils/step_definitions/content-types/listing.ts
index 3457e2112c..627b246506 100644
--- a/packages/ripple-test-utils/step_definitions/content-types/listing.ts
+++ b/packages/ripple-test-utils/step_definitions/content-types/listing.ts
@@ -592,3 +592,35 @@ Then(
     })
   }
 )
+
+Then(
+  'the search listing config has the following excludes added to source',
+  (dataTable: DataTable) => {
+    const table = dataTable.hashes()
+    const excludes = table.map((row) => row.key)
+
+    cy.get('@pageFixture').then((response) => {
+      set(
+        response,
+        `config.searchListingConfig.responseSource.exclude`,
+        excludes
+      )
+    })
+  }
+)
+
+Then(
+  'the search listing config has the following includes added to source',
+  (dataTable: DataTable) => {
+    const table = dataTable.hashes()
+    const includes = table.map((row) => row.key)
+
+    cy.get('@pageFixture').then((response) => {
+      set(
+        response,
+        `config.searchListingConfig.responseSource.include`,
+        includes
+      )
+    })
+  }
+)
diff --git a/packages/ripple-tide-search/composables/useTideSearch.ts b/packages/ripple-tide-search/composables/useTideSearch.ts
index 2b9c70583e..39564c14ab 100644
--- a/packages/ripple-tide-search/composables/useTideSearch.ts
+++ b/packages/ripple-tide-search/composables/useTideSearch.ts
@@ -274,6 +274,19 @@ export default ({
     ]
   }
 
+  const getSourceOptions = () => {
+    let source: { include?: string[]; exclude?: string[] } = {}
+
+    if (searchListingConfig?.responseSource?.include) {
+      source.include = searchListingConfig?.responseSource?.include
+    }
+    if (searchListingConfig?.responseSource?.exclude) {
+      source.exclude = searchListingConfig?.responseSource?.exclude
+    }
+
+    return Object.keys(source).length ? source : false
+  }
+
   const getUserFilters = (forAggregations = false) => {
     const filterValues: Record<string, any> = {
       ...filterForm.value,
@@ -510,13 +523,20 @@ export default ({
   const getQueryDSL = async () => {
     const locationFilters = await getLocationFilterClause('listing')
     const query = getQueryClause([...getUserFilterClause(), ...locationFilters])
+    const source = getSourceOptions()
 
-    return {
+    let queryDSL = {
       query,
       size: pageSize.value,
       from: pagingStart.value,
       sort: getSortClause()
     }
+
+    if (source) {
+      queryDSL._source = source
+    }
+
+    return queryDSL
   }
 
   const getQueryDSLForDynamicAggregations = async () => {
@@ -553,14 +573,21 @@ export default ({
   const getQueryDSLForMaps = async () => {
     const locationFilters = await getLocationFilterClause('map')
     const query = getQueryClause([...getUserFilterClause(), ...locationFilters])
+    const source = getSourceOptions()
 
-    return {
+    let queryDSL = {
       query,
       // ES queries have a 10k result limit, maps struggle drawing more than this anyway. If you need more you will need to implement a loading strategy see : https://openlayers.org/en/latest/apidoc/module-ol_loadingstrategy.html
       size: 10000,
       from: 0,
       sort: getSortClause()
     }
+
+    if (source) {
+      queryDSL._source = source
+    }
+
+    return queryDSL
   }
 
   const getSearchResults = async (isFirstRun: boolean) => {
diff --git a/packages/ripple-tide-search/types.ts b/packages/ripple-tide-search/types.ts
index 04025174f6..16b069d7f8 100644
--- a/packages/ripple-tide-search/types.ts
+++ b/packages/ripple-tide-search/types.ts
@@ -296,6 +296,13 @@ export type TideSearchListingConfig = {
      * @description show filters in the sidebar?
      */
     filtersInSidebar?: boolean
+    /**
+     * @description modify the elasticsearch response source
+     */
+    responseSource?: {
+      include?: string[]
+      exclude?: string[]
+    }
   }
   /**
    * @description Tabs to display, key needs to be one of TideSearchListingTabKey