Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Ministerial Policy Advisers

(asked on 9th February 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills will publish records of external meetings held by special advisers to its ministers.


Answered by
Baroness Neville-Rolfe Portrait
Baroness Neville-Rolfe
Shadow Minister (Treasury)
This question was answered on 26th February 2016

The Government publishes an unprecedented amount of data; departments publish details of Ministers and Permanent Secretaries meetings' with external organisations, and Special Advisers' meetings with senior media figures. The information requested is not held centrally and there are no plans to extend current arrangements”

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