Question follow-through · 122495

Lobbying: Finance

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 16 March 2026 to Question 119901 on Lobbying: Finance, whether he holds information on grant funding for lobbying activity in relation to grants from 2024-25 onwards.

answeredCabinet Office

About this written question

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Answering body
Cabinet Office
Tabled
20 Mar 2026
Target answer date
24 Mar 2026
Answer
13 Apr 2026 · 24 calendar days after tabling

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

Recorded timeline

  1. 20 Mar 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 16 March 2026 to Question 119901 on Lobbying: Finance, whether he holds information on grant funding for lobbying activity in relation to grants from 2024-25 onwards.

  2. 24 Mar 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 13 Apr 2026

    Answer published

    Grants statistics for 2024/25 were published on GOV.UK on 24 March 2026.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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