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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Alcoholic Drinks

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many alcohol industry representatives Ministers in his Department have met since July 2024.

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Answering body: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Tabled: 11 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 16 Dec 2024
Answer: 18 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

11 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, 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.
18 Dec 2024
Answer published
Details of ministers' meetings with external individuals and organisations are published quarterly in arrears on GOV.UK. Data for the period of July to September 2024 will be published in due course.

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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