Departments: Berkeley Group
Communities and Local Government
Written answers and statements, 9 October 2007
Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 23 July 2007, Official Report, column 735W, on Departments: Berkeley Group, whether the right hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott) met with (a) directors, representatives or lawyers acting for and (b) employees of (i) Berkeley Group Holdings plc, (ii) St George plc, (iii) Berkeley Homes plc, (iv) St James Group Ltd, (v) Berkeley First Ltd, (vi) Berkeley Commercial Development Ltd and (vii) Berkeley Strategic Land Ltd in a Ministerial capacity in the last three years; and whether any officials in her Department attended such meetings.
Iain Wright (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Communities and Local Government; Hartlepool, Labour)
Ministers and civil servants meet many people as part of the process of policy development and advice. As a general point of principle, information relating to such meetings is not normally disclosed.