Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if senior officials in his Department have accepted (a) hospitality and (b) gifts from the Post Office in the last 12 months.

Senior officials have accepted hospitality from the Post Office relating to 2 board dinners, a Post Office people awards day and one overnight stay for a board away day. From the BEIS Gifts, Hospitality, Bribery and Corruption policy, if a gift could be considered to influence a decision, in the past or in the future, the gift should be declined. Transparency data on BEIS hospitality and gifts can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/search/transparency-and-freedom-of-information-releases?organisations%5B%5D=department-for-business-energy-and-industrial-strategy&parent=department-for-business-energy-and-industrial-strategy.