Question follow-through · 2060
Ministers: Conduct
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of revising section nine of the Ministerial Code on Ministers and Parliament.
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 29 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 2 Sept 2024 · 35 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of revising section nine of the Ministerial Code on Ministers and Parliament.
2 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Sept 2024
Answer published
When meeting with the new Cabinet for the first time, the Prime Minister was clear about the standards he expects of them and their ministerial teams. The Prime Minister will issue a Ministerial Code in due course.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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