Question follow-through · 8514
Department for Business and Trade: Arden Strategies
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether (a) Ministers, (b) special advisers and (c) officials in his Department have had discussions with representatives of Arden Strategies.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 10 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 17 Oct 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
10 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether (a) Ministers, (b) special advisers and (c) officials in his Department have had discussions with representatives of Arden Strategies.
14 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Oct 2024
Answer published
Details of Senior Officials’ and Ministers’ meetings with external organisations and individuals are published quarterly in arrears on GOV.UK.Special Advisers are required to comply with the Special Adviser Code of Conduct at all times and are required to...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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