Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on how many occasions (a) ministers and (b) officials held meetings with Bill Gates in each year since 2010; and what the reasons were for those meetings; and who was present at each of those meetings.

Details of Ministers’ and Permanent Secretaries' meetings with external individuals and organisations are published quarterly in arrears on GOV.UK. Published declarations include the purpose of the meeting and the names of any additional external organisations or individuals in attendance.