Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Melanie Onn Excerpts
Wednesday 22nd March 2017

(7 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Ben Gummer Portrait Ben Gummer
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We must learn from each other, which is why we are members of the Open Government Partnership, which this country helped to set up. I have been to the OGP conference to learn from others, and we will continue to learn in that way, including from the OECD, the G20 and the International Aid Transparency Initiative.

Melanie Onn Portrait Melanie Onn (Great Grimsby) (Lab)
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Does the Minister believe that transparency should begin at home? If he does, can he please explain where the response is to my letter of 19 December, which is addressed to his Department and to the director-general of his Department’s propriety and ethics team, because I have yet to receive it?

Ben Gummer Portrait Ben Gummer
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I profoundly apologise to the hon. Lady if we have not responded in time. It is very important to me that we respond courteously and quickly to Members, and I shall chase up the matter immediately and make sure that she gets a proper response.