Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions Ministers in his Department (a) met representatives of ETS between May 2010 and February 2014 and (b) have met such representatives since February 2014.

Home Office Ministers and officials have meetings with a wide variety of international partners, as well as organisations and individuals in the public and private sectors, as part of the process of policy development and delivery. Details of Ministerial meetings are passed to the Cabinet Office on a quarterly basis and are subsequently published on the Gov.uk website:

https://data.gov.uk/dataset/2eac556f-f2d3-4e84-8230-ca5b7cd9e428/ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings-with-external-organisations-in-home-office