Question follow-through · 7431

Ministers: Corporate Hospitality

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance his Department issues on the circumstances in which hospitality received by Ministers at party conferences should be declared.

answeredCabinet Office

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Answering body: Cabinet Office
Tabled: 7 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 9 Oct 2024
Answer: 21 Oct 2024 · 14 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

7 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance his Department issues on the circumstances in which hospitality received by Ministers at party conferences should be declared.
9 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Ministerial Code sets out rules on the acceptance of gifts and hospitality in a ministerial capacity. Any hospitality, above the relevant thresholds, received by a minister in their capacity as MP or Peer should be declared on the parliamentary regist...

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