Question follow-through · 24405
USA: Politics and Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the Prime Minister has received an invitation to the US President's inauguration.
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- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 15 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the Prime Minister has received an invitation to the US President's inauguration.
17 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Prime Minister congratulates President Trump on his inauguration and looks forward to working with him. The US is a dependable ally.The precedent is that only Ambassadors based in Washington DC are invited to attend the inauguration ceremony as repres...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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