| Heading: |
Golf: Scotland |
| Question ID: |
1798577 |
| UIN: |
49103 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-29 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5055 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Max Wilkinson
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| Asking Member handle: |
mpmwilko
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@mpmwilko
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has received representations from (a) President Trump and (b) the US government on the potential hosting of The Open at Turnberry. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-06 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4607 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Stephanie Peacock
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| Answering Member handle: |
Steph_Peacock
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@Steph_Peacock
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
Sporting bodies operate independently of the Government, and decisions on tournament hosting venues are rightly a matter for the relevant sporting bodies.This would be a matter entirely for The R&A and its operational team. |
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| Answering body ID: |
217 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Culture, Media and Sport |
| Tweeted: |
true |