To ask the Prime Minister, what plans she has to change the official guidelines for recording meetings that take place with the newspaper press.

To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to the Answer of 28 October 2016 to Question 50210, for what reasons the Government does not include minutes of meetings with external agencies and members of the press in its quarterly releases.

The Government publishes details of all Ministers’ and Special Advisers meetings on a quarterly basis with newspaper and other media proprietors, editors and senior executives regardless of the purpose of the meeting. There are no plans to change this.