Asked by: Kit Malthouse (Conservative - North West Hampshire)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what (a) meetings and (b) communications via electronic messaging (i) the Prime Minister and (ii) his special advisers have had with representatives of Arden Strategies.
Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
Details of ministers’ meetings with external organisations and individuals are published quarterly in arrears on GOV.UK.
Special advisers are required to comply with the Special Adviser Code of Conduct at all times and are required to make declarations on meetings with senior media figures in line with published transparency guidance.
Where a special adviser accompanies their minister to an official meeting with a senior media figure, the special adviser’s attendance does not need to be separately recorded as the minister will be the main attendee.
Where an informal lobbying approach is granted time or resource by Government, it should result in a diarised engagement and therefore be recorded.
Asked by: Kit Malthouse (Conservative - North West Hampshire)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what meetings the Prime Minister has had with (a) individuals, (b) trade unions and (c) organisations who have previously made political donations to (i) him and (ii) his constituency association.
Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
As was the practice under the previous Administration, details of the Prime Minister’s official engagements with external individuals and organisations will be published in the quarterly transparency returns on gov.uk.
Asked by: Kit Malthouse (Conservative - North West Hampshire)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what (a) statutory and (b) non-statutory direct ministerial appointments excluding special advisers she has made; and (i) who the appointee was and (ii) what the (A) remuneration, (B) title and (C) terms of reference was for each appointment.
Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
A ‘direct appointment’ is a Ministerial appointment to a non-statutory office. It does not include appointments to Civil Service roles. Since 5 July 2024, the Cabinet Office has made no statutory or non-statutory direct ministerial appointments.
Asked by: Kit Malthouse (Conservative - North West Hampshire)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what (a) statutory and (b) non-statutory direct ministerial appointments excluding special advisers the Prime Minister has made; and (i) who the appointee was and (ii) what the (A) remuneration, (B) title and (C) terms of reference was for each appointment.
Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
As of this date, there have been no such appointments.