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Identity
organisation:govuk:BBC News — the GOV.UK transparency returns key, used as-is. No identity here is invented.
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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 publishedRegisterTied byConfidenceRows
BBC NewsGOV.UK transparency returnsexact name within one register1.09

What the records establish

  • BBC News: 9 records of "recorded meeting with a minister" between 18 May 2016 and 8 April 2025.
All 9 recorded relationships. Kind: FACT — every row is a register's own record; nothing on this page is computed.
RelationshipWithDateAmountDetailRecord
recorded meeting with a ministerLucy Powell8 April 2025ministerial_meetings
recorded meeting with a ministerPat McFadden25 March 2025ministerial_meetings
recorded meeting with a ministerLord Hart of Tenby8 June 2023ministerial_meetings
recorded meeting with a ministerLord Hart of Tenby19 April 2023ministerial_meetings
recorded meeting with a ministerGeorge Freeman10 January 2022ministerial_meetings
recorded meeting with a ministerBaroness Berridge28 May 2021ministerial_meetings
recorded meeting with a ministerKwasi Kwarteng5 May 2021ministerial_meetings
recorded meeting with a ministerMr Sam Gyimah18 May 2018ministerial_meetings
recorded meeting with a ministerLord Grayling18 May 2016ministerial_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.