Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister without Portfolio during the debate on Reporting Ministerial Gifts and Hospitality of 14 October 2024, Official Report, column 594, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of including in the planned update to the Ministerial Code or proposed new guidance a financial (a) threshold and (b) test for the acceptance of donations, gifts and hospitality by a Minister after which that Minister should themselves from the issues relating to the business or policy area of the donor.

As set out by the Minister without Portfolio, the updated Ministerial Code will be published in due course. It will include details of a new Register of Ministers' Gifts and Hospitality, which will bring the publication of ministerial transparency data more closely into line with the parliamentary regime for gifts and hospitality.