Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 3 May 2023 to Question 183041 on Minister without Portfolio, whether the Minister without Portfolio has purchased a decommissioned ministerial red box for his own personal use from (a) her Department, (b) the former Department for International Trade, and (c) the former Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, since 1 January 2018.

No.

I would also refer the Rt Hon Member to the report in The Times of 1 April 2013 ("ex-Ministers buy last grip on power") which indicated over 40 Ministers purchased Ministerial boxes after the 2010 general election.