Question follow-through · 41103
Cabinet Office: Corporate Hospitality
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy to ensure that transparency returns from his Department include an indicative value of any hospitality received.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 25 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 31 Mar 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy to ensure that transparency returns from his Department include an indicative value of any hospitality received.
27 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Ministerial Code already requires ministers to declare the estimated value, where possible, of any hospitality received above de minimus levels. As has been the case under successive administrations, special advisers and senior officials are not requi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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