Question follow-through · 19339

Home Office: Alcoholic Drinks

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many alcohol industry representatives Ministers in her Department have met since July 2024.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
11 Dec 2024
Target answer date
16 Dec 2024
Answer
20 Dec 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 11 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many alcohol industry representatives Ministers in her Department have met since July 2024.

  2. 16 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 20 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.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

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