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Ministers: Visits Abroad

Asked by Mike WoodConservativeCabinet OfficeTabled Answered 15 January 2026UIN 103797

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To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the publication entitled Ministers' overseas travel and meetings: Publication Guidance, January 2025, and the paragraph 1(a) guidance on foreign meetings, whether a meeting with a foreign gover

Answered by Nick Thomas-Symonds

The same Publication Guidance the Hon Member quotes makes clear that in such scenarios, "the meeting should be declared including the names of these [external] organisations or individuals only”.

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