Question follow-through · 26089
Public Appointments and Special Advisers
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government has received legal advice on the compatibility of (a) Ministerial and (b) special adviser appointments with section 2 of the Fraud Act 2006.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 23 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 30 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government has received legal advice on the compatibility of (a) Ministerial and (b) special adviser appointments with section 2 of the Fraud Act 2006.
28 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jan 2025
Answer published
As is a longstanding practice under successive administrations, Civil Service or legal advice on appointments is treated in confidence.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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