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<p>In July 2023, the Cabinet Office published its response to three reports on strengthening
ethics and integrity in central government. This states: “The Government will be implementing
comprehensive reforms to improve the quality and accessibility of departments' transparency
returns, which cover meetings, gifts, hospitality and travel.”</p><p>“The Cabinet
Office is developing a single platform to collate and publish departments' transparency
returns. This will provide a single public source of transparency data, replacing
the system of separate publications. Following the deployment and adoption of an integrated
database, the Government will look to move departments' transparency publications
from a quarterly to a monthly basis.” The full response is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/strengthening-ethics-and-integrity-in-central-government"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/strengthening-ethics-and-integrity-in-central-government</a></p><p>My
office is already collating monthly returns and we are working with the Cabinet Office
in order to publish these ahead of the new system being rolled out across Government.</p><p>Separately,
and in line with the Ministerial Code, the List of Ministers’ Interests is published
twice yearly with updates issued at other times as needed.</p>
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