Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for which public appointments the Prime Minister is directly responsible.

Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)

The Prime Minister is directly responsible for public appointments to 61 bodies and offices across government departments. Individual appointments made by the Prime Minister are publicly announced at the time of appointment.

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2024 to Question 6077 on Public Appointments, if the Prime Minister will list each individual Direct Ministerial Appointment which was signed off by 10 Downing Street according to records held by the No. 10 public appointments team since 5 July 2024.

Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)

I refer the Hon Member to my answer of 14 October 2024, Official Report, PQ 6091.

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government records the details of meetings Ministers have at party conferences.

Answered by Abena Oppong-Asare - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)

Ministers’ meetings with external organisations at party conferences will generally be in a political capacity so there is no need to normally declare these, unless a senior media figure was also present. Annex D of the Ministerial Transparency Guidance, which is published on GOV.UK, states that ministers’ meetings with external organisations at party conferences will generally be in a political capacity so there is no need to normally declare these, unless a senior media figure was also present. However, if ministers exceptionally hold meetings in the margins of Party conferences in an official ministerial capacity, then these should be recorded and published in the normal way.

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