Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether (a) the Prime Minister and (b) officials in Downing Street have had recent discussions with representatives of Fleetwood Strategy on the NHS.
Answered by Alex Burghart - Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Details of ministerial meetings with external organisations on official government business are routinely published on the gov.uk website. Party political discussions are a matter for the Conservative Party.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many drinks receptions were held in 10 Downing Street in each of the last three years.
Answered by Alex Burghart - Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Details of official receptions are published in quarterly transparency returns on gov.uk.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the Prime Minister's Office spent on hospitality in (a) 2021, (b) 2022 and (c) 2023.
Answered by Alex Burghart - Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
The Prime Minister’s Office is an integral part of the Cabinet Office and as such their data is included within the Cabinet Office data.
I refer the Honourable Member to PQ 191749. We do not routinely publish departmental wide hospitality data, as has been the case under successive administrations. All Business Units within the Cabinet Office have a responsibility to keep official hospitality costs as low as possible and demonstrate good value for money.
Details of ministerial and senior official hospitality are published on a quarterly basis, and are available on GOV.UK.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much their Department spent on hospitality in (a) 2021, (b) 2022 and (c) 2023.
Answered by Alex Burghart - Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
The Prime Minister’s Office is an integral part of the Cabinet Office and as such their data is included within the Cabinet Office data.
I refer the Honourable Member to PQ 191749. We do not routinely publish departmental wide hospitality data, as has been the case under successive administrations. All Business Units within the Cabinet Office have a responsibility to keep official hospitality costs as low as possible and demonstrate good value for money.
Details of ministerial and senior official hospitality are published on a quarterly basis, and are available on GOV.UK.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much from the public purse his Office has spent on hospitality since 25 October 2022.
Answered by Jeremy Quin
I refer the hon. Member to the answer of 24 November 2022, Official Report, PQ 95960.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department spent on taxi cabs for (a) ministers and (b) civil servants in each of the last three years.
Answered by Chris Philp - Shadow Home Secretary
Spend on taxi cabs in as follows:
| 20/21 | 21/22 | 22/23 (to 30/09/22) |
Total Taxi Spend | 883,520.53 | 1,619,210.30 | 341,060.18 |
Of which Government Car Service | 490,595.46 | 1,395,679.70 | 184,295.24 |
Spend on Government Car Service can be separated, however more widely we cannot split total spend by passenger so a broader breakdown of the spend is not available.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department spent on first class train travel for (a) ministers and (b) civil servants in (i) 2020, (i) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
Answered by Chris Philp - Shadow Home Secretary
Based on our central contracts spend in the years requested is below:
2020 - £34,008.20
2021 - £44,083.40
2022 (until September) - £31,541.35
It is not possible to separate spend by ministers and civil servants.