Question follow-through · 16346

Senior Civil Servants and Special Advisers: Disclosure of Information

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy that (a) senior official and (b) special adviser transparency returns are published as frequently as those of Ministers.

answeredCabinet Office

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Answering body: Cabinet Office
Tabled: 26 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 28 Nov 2024
Answer: 3 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

26 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy that (a) senior official and (b) special adviser transparency returns are published as frequently as those of Ministers.
28 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Government publishes a wide range of transparency data. Reporting requirements remain in place, with data regularly being published on GOV.UK. The Cabinet Office will publish, monthly, a Register of Ministers’ Gifts and Hospitality in due course.

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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