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1491673

registered interest
date	21/07/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Chequers: Official Hospitality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, who attended the Prime Minister’s gathering at the Prime Minister’s official residence at Chequers on the weekend of 16 July; and what was the cost to the public purse of that gathering.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	42175
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2022 answer text <p>As I outlined in my answer of 18 October 2021 to PQ 54006, Chequers is not a government building; it is run and managed by an independent trust. As has been the practice under successive Premiers, the incumbent Prime Minister uses Chequers consistent with the wishes of the donor, the late Sir Arthur Lee, who gave it to the nation for the use of the serving Prime Minister, for both official and private use. This is set out in the Chequers Estates Act 1917.</p><p>Details of official hospitality at Chequers are published on a quarterly basis and are available via the <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">gov.uk</a> website. I can confirm the Prime Minister’s gathering of 16 July was not an official event.</p><p>Personal or party political hospitality is not paid for by the public purse.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 05/09/2022 11:00:27 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1459876

registered interest
date	22/04/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Chequers: Official Hospitality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 19 April 2022 to Question 151141 on Chequers: Official Hospitality, whether the location of meetings, including those held at Chequers, is included within the ministerial gifts, hospitality, travel and meetings category of Ministerial returns.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	157602
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2022 answer text <p>The data collated for Ministerial transparency returns is published in the Ministerial transparency returns.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 27/04/2022 16:27:01 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1456625

registered interest
date	31/03/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Chequers: Official Hospitality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 21 March 2022 to Question 140455, for what reason the Government has stopped publishing Guests to Chequers transparency data since March 2015.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	151141
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2022 answer text <p>I can confirm that the Government has not stopped publishing this data. The Government has consistently published transparency data on official hospitality at Chequers since 2010.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2015, the Chequers hospitality data is clearly listed within the &quot;ministerial gifts, hospitality, travel and meetings&quot; category of Ministerial returns on <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgov.uk%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7CPierce.Derrane%40no10.gov.uk%7C5dab5c32e4014ac749f708da163f45a8%7C29c8cbb9d9af4c7eb28b470f15275e47%7C1%7C0%7C637846758244369436%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=5K5NuBNNO2Xw4v%2F8bNfuXR0HRH55W6OYrnnkseqh3ZM%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">gov.uk</a>.</p><p> </p><p>I would observe that since 2016, it is the Labour Party which has stopped publishing transparency data on frontbench meetings with senior media executives, breaking a key commitment made during the Leveson Inquiry.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 19/04/2022 16:41:52 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1456626

registered interest
date	31/03/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Chequers: Official Hospitality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much public money was used during guests visits to Chequers in each of the last three years, by budget heading.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	151142
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2022 answer text <p>Details of official hospitality at Chequers is published on a quarterly basis and is available via the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgov.uk%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7CPierce.Derrane%40no10.gov.uk%7C5dab5c32e4014ac749f708da163f45a8%7C29c8cbb9d9af4c7eb28b470f15275e47%7C1%7C0%7C637846758244369436%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=5K5NuBNNO2Xw4v%2F8bNfuXR0HRH55W6OYrnnkseqh3ZM%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">gov.uk</a> website.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 19/04/2022 16:38:17 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1441305

registered interest
date	15/03/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Chequers: Official Hospitality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 9 March 2022 to Question 134364 on Chequers: Official Hospitality, if he will publish the meetings within that transparency data that took place at Chequers in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	140455
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2022 answer text <p>As I outlined in my previous answer, details of official hospitality at Chequers are published and reasonably accessible to the Rt Hon Member on GOV.UK.</p><p> </p><p>Notwithstanding the above, the location of every Ministerial meeting in the last three years is not centrally held.</p><p> </p><p>Chequers itself is not a government building; it is run and managed by an independent trust.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 21/03/2022 17:33:38 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1438127

registered interest
date	04/03/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Chequers: Official Hospitality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the transparency data relating to Guests to Chequers for the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	134364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2022 answer text <p>I refer the Rt Hon Member to the government transparency data routinely published on GOV.UK since May 2010, which is readily accessible at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ministers-transparency-publications" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ministers-transparency-publications</a>.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 09/03/2022 16:57:05 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner