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Government Departments: Political Activities

Question for Cabinet Office

UIN 49054, tabled on 29 April 2025

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 17 April 2025 to Question 41110 on Government departments: political activities, whether there are limits on the amount of party political content that Ministers can deliver in speeches with scripted party political content in government departments which are not ministerial residences.

Answered on

13 May 2025

While guidance is not expressed in terms of specific limits, the primary purpose of any ministerial speech must be government business and the essential nature of the speech should not be party political.

Answered by

Cabinet Office