Question follow-through · 50433
Public Sector: Fees and Charges
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy to prohibit (a) Government agencies and (b) Departments from (i) engaging and (ii) endorsing commercial intermediaries that charge users for access to otherwise free public services
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
- 6 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 May 2025
- Answer
- 27 May 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy to prohibit (a) Government agencies and (b) Departments from (i) engaging and (ii) endorsing commercial intermediaries that charge users for access to otherwise free public services
8 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 May 2025
Answer published
It is for those departments providing services to the public to ensure that third parties do not mislead citizens into making additional or unnecessary payments for accessing those services.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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