Cabinet Office written statement – made at on 3 February 2025.
Ministers’ Gifts and Hospitality
As part of the Government's commitment to transparency, the Prime Minister updated the Ministerial Code on 6 November 2024. This requires the Cabinet Office to publish a Register of Ministers' Gifts and Hospitality every month.
The Register will bring closer alignment between ministerial declarations of gifts and hospitality with the parliamentary regime, ending the system where ministerial declarations are published many months after parliamentary declarations. The Register will also require ministers, for the first time, to declare where possible an estimated value for all hospitality received.
In line with this requirement, the Cabinet Office published on Thursday 30 January the following datasets:
The Cabinet Office also published new guidance on the publication process for the new Register. The Government will publish a Register of Ministers’ Gifts and Hospitality at the end of each month.
Other transparency datasets
Government departments also published the following routine transparency data for the period of July to September 2024: