Question follow-through · 65007

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when his Department plans to respond to the letter of May 2025 from the hon. Member for Thirsk and Malton to the Cabinet Secretary on the role of special advisers at party political events.

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Answering body: Cabinet Office
Tabled: 4 Jul 2025
Target answer date: 8 Jul 2025
Answer: 10 Jul 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

4 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when his Department plans to respond to the letter of May 2025 from the hon. Member for Thirsk and Malton to the Cabinet Secretary on the role of special advisers at party political events.
8 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jul 2025
Answer published
I refer the Hon. member to the answer of 24 June, UIN 59090.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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