Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to introduce in central Government Departments similar transparency rules to those applied to local authorities under the Local Government Transparency Code 2015.
Since 2010, the Government has been at the forefront of opening up data to allow Parliament, the public and the media to hold public bodies to account.
Under the terms of the Ministerial Code, departments regularly publish data on a range of information such as Ministers’ external meetings.
Despite the need to reprioritise resources to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, tremendous progress continues to be made this year by central government departments in publishing core transparency data.