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Ministerial gifts, hospitality, travel and meetings

There is no single register. Each department publishes its own quarterly return on GOV.UK as a set of files. Civometry holds 542 such publications from 29 departments and offices, covering quarters from 1 May 2010 to 31 March 2026, and has read 60,779 meeting rows from 625 meetings files.

Departments, by the latest quarter published

“Quarters behind” counts whole quarters between the end of the latest quarter a department has published and today. Returns are normally published a quarter or two after the period ends; a department shown several quarters behind has not published, or has published under a title this loader did not recognise. Either is worth checking on GOV.UK before it is read as anything else.

DepartmentReturnsLatest quarterPublishedQuarters behindMeeting rows
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology7to 31 March 202626 June 202621,099
Department for Work and Pensions49to 31 March 20263 August 202623,474
Home Office48to 31 March 202625 June 202623,374
Northern Ireland Office18to 31 March 202625 June 20262936
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government3to 31 March 202525 June 20256516
Ministry of Defence13to 31 December 202428 August 202471,650
Department for Business and Trade7to 30 September 20244 February 202582,262
Department for Education18to 30 September 202430 January 202584,745
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero7to 30 September 202430 January 202581,203
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs29to 30 September 202430 January 202583,063
Department for Transport36to 30 September 202430 January 202584,209
Department of Health and Social Care23to 30 September 202430 January 202584,429
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office17to 30 September 202430 January 202581,764
Office of the Advocate General for Scotland35to 30 September 202430 January 2025813
Wales Office3to 30 September 202430 January 20258131
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities 12to 30 June 202428 November 202491,823
Cabinet Office53to 31 December 202321 March 2024113,761
Department for Culture, Media and Sport4to 31 December 202321 March 202411805
Office of the Secretary of State for Wales28to 31 December 202321 March 202411719
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy28to 31 March 202320 July 2023148,607
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (2017 to 2023)29to 31 December 202229 March 2023154,969
Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021)26to 30 June 202128 October 2021212,506
Foreign & Commonwealth Office13to 30 September 202010 September 202124827
Department for International Development12to 30 June 202024 November 202025495
Department for Exiting the European Union12to 30 September 201923 January 2020281,220
Department for Business, Innovation & Skills9to 30 June 20169 November 201641196
Department of Energy & Climate Change1to 30 June 20169 November 2016410
Government Legal Department1to 31 December 201518 March 2016430
Department for International Trade1not stated in title14 July 2021—1,983

What is read, and what is only linked

Of the four returns, only the meetings file is read into rows: its four columns (minister, date, who was met, purpose) have stayed the same across departments and years. Gifts, hospitality and travel files differ from department to department, so they are linked from each publication and not parsed. 246 meetings files could not be read and say why on the department's page.

A minister’s name and the name of whoever they met are the file’s own words. A cell that lists several organisations stays one cell. A meeting is a meeting the department recorded; the records do not say what was said or what followed, and nothing on this site infers either.

Source: each department’s own “ministerial gifts, hospitality, travel and meetings” publication on GOV.UK, found through the GOV.UK search API and read through the content API. Open Government Licence v3.