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Written Question
Diego Garcia
Monday 13th January 2025

Asked by: Mark Francois (Conservative - Rayleigh and Wickford)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 7 January 2025 to Question 20932 on Diego Garcia, what his planned timetable is to publish details of the Prime Minister’s meetings between July and December 2024.

Answered by Abena Oppong-Asare

Details of ministers’ meetings with external individuals and organisations are published quarterly on GOV.UK.

Written Question
Diego Garcia
Tuesday 7th January 2025

Asked by: Mark Francois (Conservative - Rayleigh and Wickford)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Prime Minister has had discussions with Philippe Sands KC on Diego Garcia since 4 July 2024.

Answered by Abena Oppong-Asare

Details of ministerial meetings with external organisations are published on gov.uk as part of the government’s transparency agenda.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 09 Sep 2022
Tributes to Her Late Majesty The Queen

"We have lost our sovereign: the most remarkable woman and the longest reigning monarch in British history, who in 70 years barely ever put a foot wrong. She was perhaps the most famous person in the world, and possibly the most popular, too.

If the House will indulge me, it …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 20 Jul 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"The Prime Minister spoke earlier about the atrocities carried out by the IRA. For decades, many men and women had the courage to put on the Queen’s uniform and uphold law and order in Northern Ireland on Operation Banner. One of the Prime Minister’s undoubted achievements is that he brought …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 02 Feb 2022
Army Reserve

"I declare an interest of sorts, as a former TA infantry officer during the cold war. On a positive note, I am delighted to report that my godson Alexander Blackwell, who I saw today, recently graduated from Sandhurst as a second lieutenant in the Army Reserve.

The Territorial Army did …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 02 Feb 2022
Army Reserve

"As I now have the privilege of serving on the current Public Accounts Committee, I entirely endorse the sensible suggestion of my hon. Friend the Member for Gravesham (Adam Holloway)...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 02 Feb 2022
Army Reserve

"Churchill called the Territorials “twice the citizen”, because after a hard day’s work they go home, eat something quickly and dash out for training. When the Minister receives submissions asking him to close Army Reserve centres—I know that, as a Minister, he instinctively understands these things—will he look very carefully …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Dec 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

"No one believes you any more...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Dec 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

"The Secretary of State keeps threatening to invoke article 16, but he never quite gets round to doing it, does he? There is a pattern of behaviour here: the Secretary of State talks a great game but he never plays one. Where is your Bill, Brandon?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 09 Nov 2021
Photographic Reconnaissance Unit: National Memorial

"I apologise to you, Mr Davies, and to the Minister that I cannot be here for the whole debate because I am about to attend a remembrance service in the Guards’ Chapel. No disrespect is intended.

May I pay a family tribute? My late father, Reginald Francois, was on a …..."
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