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Prepare the data

The Cabinet Office Transparency Data team has provided this guidance on how to prepare data for publication.

Ministers鈥� overseas travel and meetings: Publication Guidance

They will commission you with templates, timing and support on appropriate approval processes.

This guidance will apply to transparency data for the period of October - December 2024 onwards.

Government is committed to publishing this data every quarter.

Publish the data

Create a new 188体育 publication page for each data release.

Create a collection page on 188体育 for all data releases, with links to each individual publication page.

Consider creating a collection page for each individual data set

Publication page template

The publication title, summary, detail and file name is a government standard and must not be changed.

Publication type: Transparency data

Title: [Department name]: ministerial overseas travel and meetings, [month to month] [year]
Example Title: 鈥淐abinet Office: ministerial overseas travel and meetings, October to December 2024鈥�

Summary: Data on ministers鈥� overseas travel and meetings with external individuals and organisations.

Body:

[Department] publishes details of ministers鈥� gifts overseas travel and meetings with external individuals and organisations every quarter.

Associations

Policies: Government transparency and accountability

Policy areas: Government efficiency, transparency and accountability

CSV attachment titles

• [Department]鈥檚 ministerial overseas travel, [month to month] [year]
• [Department]鈥檚 ministerial meetings [month to month] [year]

For example:

1. Cabinet Office ministerial overseas travel January to March 2025
2. Cabinet Office ministerial聽 meetings January to March 2025

Collection page [188体育]

Add the new publication to your department鈥檚 collection page for this data.

Make sure the collection page is tagged to the Government transparency and accountability policy.

Collection page template [188体育]

Title: [Department]: ministerial overseas travel, and meetings

Summary: All data on overseas travel undertaken by ministers and meetings with external individuals and organisations.

Body (optional):

Government publishes details of ministers鈥� overseas travel and meetings with external individuals and organisations every quarter.

Subheadings: Add headings for each calendar year, most recent first.

DATA.188体育 page templates

When the dataset is published, add a link to it in your department鈥檚 section on data.gov.uk.

We recommend that this is maintained as a series of collection pages listing all historic publications on 188体育 with a direct link to the .CSV resource.
An individual page will need to be maintained for each of the following:

1. Overseas Travel
2. Meetings

Title: [Department]: Ministerial [the specific data set] data
Example:

1. Cabinet Office Ministerial Overseas Travel Data
2. Cabinet Office Ministerial Meetings Data

Summary: This is a collection and collation page for an element of [your department] Ministerial Transparency publications [published here: {your ministerial transparency pages on gov.uk}.]

Guidance - Each CSV published on 188体育 will be listed here, to enable easy access to a single stream of data on Ministers. Please use the naming conventions present on to ensure data is accurately described and dated to specific period and year.

Historical Data

Where possible - review historical datasets on and convert these to CSV format for ease of use within both and for referencing within .
Do not ever archive or remove historical publications from