If you’re wondering what’s going on let me explain. Despite Downing Street having seen all the submissions for hospitality in advance of publication, they’re letting each department publish their own lists. This is confusing. And it’s difficult to piece together who saw what when and why. It makes it hard for lobby journalists to write the story of which ministers and their political appointees received hospitality from whom. We’re going to publish every document we find but the House of Commons library have not been given them yet. Some departments have published their lists and we’re tracking them down for you. Hope you find it useful.
Entries from October 2010 ↓
Anatomy of Downing Street Spin – an explanation
Foreign Office – Travel and hospitality
So William Hague and his team are living the life of monks when it comes to hospitality. I’ll leave it down to you to decide if they are travelling to the right places or holding the right meetings.
ODPM Special Advisers boycott the News of the World
It makes you wonder how the News of the World get any stories.
