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Special Advisers: Official Hospitality

Asked by Charlie DewhirstConservativeCabinet OfficeTabled Answered 12 February 2025UIN 30476

The question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the publication entitled Number 10 special advisers hospitality, July to September 2024, published on 30 January 2025, for what reason the transparency data does not include an indicative financial value for the lunches received.

Answered by Ms Abena Oppong-Asare

The Government is committed to publishing details of all special advisers' gifts, hospitality and meetings with senior media figures on a quarterly basis. As has been the case under successive administrations, this information does not contain the value of hospitality.

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