Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, for what reason meetings held by the Minister of State for Trade Policy at Sunnylands, California, between 5 and 7 December 2021 with representatives of the Hoover Institution, the Observer Research Foundation America and other external organisations were not declared in the list of ministerial meetings for October to December 2021 published by her Department on 31 March.

I attended the Indo-Pacific Security Dialogue from the afternoon of the 5^th December to the morning of the 7th, where I joined a number of open panel discussions. Conferences and multilateral events are not reported in transparency unless specific meetings were held in the margins – which was not the case on this occasion.