Departmental Official Hospitality

David Taylor
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what entertainment or hospitality members of his Department’s management board received in each of the last three financial years; and if he will make a statement.

Jonathan Shaw
Paragraph 4.3.5 of the Civil Service Management Code sets out the rules on the registration of hospitality. The Government are committed to publishing an annual list of hospitality received by members of departmental boards. The first list for 2007 will be published as soon as it is ready after the end of the current calendar year.