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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 9 May 2019 to Question 246968 on Post Office: Corporate Hospitality, which Senior officials accepted hospitality from the Post Office; and what the dates were of the two board dinners hosted by the Post Office.

The hospitality referred to in the answer of 9 May 2019 to Question 246968 consists of five pre-Board dinners and an Awards dinner which the Shareholder Representative Non-Executive Director (Tom Cooper – UK Government Investments) attended as a member of the Post Office Board on 23 May 2018, 30 July 2018, 08 November 2018, 26 November 2018, 28 January 2019 and 25 March 2019 In addition, a member of the Post Office Shareholder Team at UK Government Investments attended the Board’s two-day strategy meeting in lieu of Tom Cooper on 26-27 June 2018, which included an overnight stay provided by Post Office Ltd.