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organisation:govuk:BBC News— the GOV.UK transparency returns key, used as-is. No identity here is invented.- Graph built
- 5 September 2026
Names in the records
Each spelling a register uses for this entity, and the method that tied it here. A name is never the identity; a similar name is never a match.
| As published | Register | Tied by | Confidence | Rows |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BBC News | GOV.UK transparency returns | exact name within one register | 1.0 | 7 |
What the records establish
- BBC News: 7 records of "recorded meeting with a minister" between 18 May 2016 and 8 June 2023.
| Relationship | With | Date | Amount | Detail | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| recorded meeting with a minister | Simon Hart | 8 June 2023 | — | ministerial_meetings | |
| recorded meeting with a minister | Simon Hart | 19 April 2023 | — | ministerial_meetings | |
| recorded meeting with a minister | George Freeman | 10 January 2022 | — | ministerial_meetings | |
| recorded meeting with a minister | Elizabeth Berridge | 28 May 2021 | — | ministerial_meetings | |
| recorded meeting with a minister | Kwasi Kwarteng | 5 May 2021 | — | ministerial_meetings | |
| recorded meeting with a minister | Sam Gyimah | 18 May 2018 | — | ministerial_meetings | |
| recorded meeting with a minister | Lord President of the Council , Leader of the House of Commons, Rt Hon Chris Grayling MP | 18 May 2016 | — | ministerial_meetings |
What this does not establish
The records above establish that BBC News and each entity named appear together in an official register, in the relationship that register records, on the date it records. They do not establish why any donation was made, why any contract was awarded, whether any one record was known to the people behind another, or that any record caused another. No causal inference is made on this page, and nothing here is a finding of any kind against anyone. A reported donation is a lawful, reported transaction; a contract award is a published notice; a seat is a seat.
Derived from: ministerial_meetings. Each row above names the table and key it came from and links the official record where one exists. How the graph is built is described at the evidence graph.