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Government Departments: Social Media

Asked by Charlie DewhirstConservativeCabinet OfficeTabled Answered 31 March 2025UIN 40911

The question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will update the (a) ministerial, (b) special adviser and (c) senior official transparency guidance on the definition of senior media executives to include large social media organisations.

Answered by Georgia Gould

Details of ministers’ and senior officials’ official meetings with all external individuals and organisations, including with social media organisations, are already published on a quarterly basis. Under long-standing guidance, special advisers are only required to declare meetings with senior media figures. There are no current plans to change the guidance.

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