Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent advice he has received from the Director General of the Propriety and Ethics Team on the (a) standards and ethics and (b) corporate governance of government departments.
It has been the policy of successive administrations not to provide the contents of advice from officials to Ministers. Standards, ethics and corporate governance of a government department is a matter for the Permanent Secretary and minister in charge of each individual department.