Organisation · GOV.UK transparency returns · Chris Mason, Political Editor, BBC News
Chris Mason, Political Editor, BBC News
- Identity
organisation:govuk:Chris Mason, Political Editor, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Mason, Political Editor, BBC News | GOV.UK transparency returns | exact name within one register | 1.0 | 8 |
What the records establish
- Chris Mason, Political Editor, BBC News: 8 records of "recorded meeting with a minister" between 23 September 2024 and 18 March 2026.
| Relationship | With | Date | Amount | Detail | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| recorded meeting with a minister | Darren Jones | 18 March 2026 | — | ministerial_meetings | |
| recorded meeting with a minister | Darren Jones | 1 October 2025 | — | ministerial_meetings | |
| recorded meeting with a minister | Darren Jones | 1 October 2025 | — | ministerial_meetings | |
| recorded meeting with a minister | Baroness Jones of Whitchurch | 9 June 2025 | — | ministerial_meetings | |
| recorded meeting with a minister | Bridget Phillipson | 23 April 2025 | — | ministerial_meetings | |
| recorded meeting with a minister | Lucy Powell | 7 January 2025 | — | ministerial_meetings | |
| recorded meeting with a minister | Darren Jones | 17 December 2024 | — | ministerial_meetings | |
| recorded meeting with a minister | Yvette Cooper | 23 September 2024 | — | ministerial_meetings |
What this does not establish
The records above establish that Chris Mason, Political Editor, 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.