Asked by: Kit Malthouse (Conservative - North West Hampshire)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what (a) meetings and (b) communications via electronic messaging (i) he and (ii) his special advisers have had with representatives of Arden Strategies.
Answered by Al Carns - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for Veterans)
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 Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, 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 Al Carns - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for Veterans)
The Department has not made any statutory direct Ministerial appointments.
The Department has made eight non-statutory direct Ministerial appointments. These are as follows:
Strategic Defence Review (SDR) 2024
Reviewers:
Remuneration rates have not yet been finalised.
All these appointments are subject to the Terms of Reference for the SDR which is available on GOV.UK.
AUKUS
Un-remunerated. Appointment's Terms of Reference available on GOV.UK.