Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many meetings of the National Security Council (NSC) have taken place since 13 July 2016; how many of those meetings were chaired by the Prime Minister; and whether there have been any weeks when Parliament has been sitting during that period when the NSC has not met.

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