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Labour Party: Conferences

Asked by Mike WoodConservativeCabinet OfficeTabled Answered 31 March 2025UIN 40538

The question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Downing Street civil servants, excluding special advisers, were permitted to attend the 2024 Labour Party conference.

Answered by Ms Abena Oppong-Asare

Civil servants are prohibited from attending party conferences in an official capacity, except in very exceptional circumstances when their presence may be required to carry out essential departmental business unconnected with the conference.

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