Question follow-through · 99536
Public Appointments
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 21 November 2025 to Question 90739 on Ministers: Public Appointments, what his Department's definition of a desk note is.
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
- 12 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 22 Dec 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 21 November 2025 to Question 90739 on Ministers: Public Appointments, what his Department's definition of a desk note is.
16 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Dec 2025
Answer published
The guidance on making direct ministerial appointments that was published on 30 October replaced an internal desk note, with some expanded expectations on due diligence, conflicts of interest, and transparency. It was also expanded to provide greater clar...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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