Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 21 March 2022 to Question 140455, for what reason the Government has stopped publishing Guests to Chequers transparency data since March 2015.

I can confirm that the Government has not stopped publishing this data. The Government has consistently published transparency data on official hospitality at Chequers since 2010.

Since 2015, the Chequers hospitality data is clearly listed within the "ministerial gifts, hospitality, travel and meetings" category of Ministerial returns on gov.uk.

I would observe that since 2016, it is the Labour Party which has stopped publishing transparency data on frontbench meetings with senior media executives, breaking a key commitment made during the Leveson Inquiry.