Question follow-through · 13759
Business: Meetings
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance his Department issues on the conduct of meetings between Ministers and business representatives where such business representatives have paid money to the governing party to facilitate the meeting.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 12 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 14 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 27 Nov 2024 · 15 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
12 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance his Department issues on the conduct of meetings between Ministers and business representatives where such business representatives have paid money to the governing party to facilitate the meeting.
14 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Nov 2024
Answer published
There is longstanding guidance on meetings between ministers and external organisations which is set out in the Ministerial Code.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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