Question follow-through · 19337
Department of Health and Social Care: Alcoholic Drinks
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many alcohol industry representatives Ministers in his Department have met since July 2024.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 11 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 16 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 17 Dec 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many alcohol industry representatives Ministers in his Department have met since July 2024.
16 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Dec 2024
Answer published
Details of ministers’ meetings with external individuals and organisations are published quarterly in arrears on GOV.UK website. Data for the period of July to September 2024 will be published in due course.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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