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Prime Minister: Information Officers

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the interests of the new Executive Director of Communications in 10 Downing Street.

answeredCabinet Office

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Answering body: Cabinet Office
Tabled: 13 Oct 2025
Target answer date: 15 Oct 2025
Answer: 20 Oct 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

13 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the interests of the new Executive Director of Communications in 10 Downing Street.
15 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Oct 2025
Answer published
There is a rigorous process to ensure any potential conflicts of interest are captured, and have appropriate mitigations in place to reflect specific circumstances. Ahead of his appointment, the new Executive Director of Communications in 10 Downing Stree...

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