Written Question·Cabinet Office·UIN 54776

Corporate Hospitality and Official Gifts

Tabled: 30 May 2025

Answered: 9 June 2025

Question

Mike Wood

Conservative — Kingswinford and South Staffordshire

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reason transparency data on (a) Ministerial gifts and hospitality and (b) senior officials and special advisers are published with different frequencies.

Answer

Ms Abena Oppong-Asare

Following updates to the Ministerial Code in November 2024, the Government moved publication of Ministers' gifts and hospitality from quarterly to monthly. This brought declarations broadly in line with those required by Members in Parliament. As with pre...

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