Cabinet Office written question – answered at on 1 November 2024.
Baroness Neville-Rolfe
Shadow Minister (Cabinet Office)
To ask His Majesty's Government when monthly reporting of Ministerial data on gifts and hospitality will begin; what the gap will be between events each month and the publication of the details; when the Gov.uk platform containing such data will go live; and whether it will include senior officials and special advisers as well as Ministers.
Baroness Twycross
Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip), Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
This Government will introduce a register for ministers’ gifts and hospitality bringing publication of ministerial transparency data on a broadly equivalent basis to the parliamentary register.
Work on the new register is progressing and further details will be published in due course. Transparency data for ministerial meetings and overseas travel, special advisers and senior officials will continue to be published quarterly as it has been under previous administrations.
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It is chaired by the prime minister.
The cabinet is bound by collective responsibility, which means that all its members must abide by and defend the decisions it takes, despite any private doubts that they might have.
Cabinet ministers are appointed by the prime minister and chosen from MPs or peers of the governing party.
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War cabinets have sometimes been formed with a much smaller membership than the full cabinet.
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