Question follow-through · 9976
Advisory Committee on Business Appointments
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to reform the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments by (a) making it statutory, (b) providing it with greater enforcement powers and (c) increasing its level of resourcing.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 18 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 24 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 24 Oct 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to reform the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments by (a) making it statutory, (b) providing it with greater enforcement powers and (c) increasing its level of resourcing.
24 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Oct 2024
Answer published
The government has committed to reviewing and updating the Business Appointment Rules. An update on this work will be provided in due course.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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