Organisation · GOV.UK transparency returns · Matt Dathan, former Deputy Political Editor, The Sun and Daniel Martin, Policy Editor, Daily Mail

Matt Dathan, former Deputy Political Editor, The Sun and Daniel Martin, Policy Editor, Daily Mail

Identity
organisation:govuk:Matt Dathan, former Deputy Political Editor, The Sun and Daniel Martin, Policy Editor, Daily Mail — 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
Matt Dathan, former Deputy Political Editor, The Sun and Daniel Martin, Policy Editor, Daily MailGOV.UK transparency returnsexact name within one register1.01

What the records establish

  • Matt Dathan, former Deputy Political Editor, The Sun and Daniel Martin, Policy Editor, Daily Mail: 1 record of "recorded meeting with a minister" on 8 December 2020.
All 1 recorded relationships. Kind: FACT — every row is a register's own record; nothing on this page is computed.
RelationshipWithDateAmountDetailRecord
recorded meeting with a ministerSir Jacob Rees-Mogg8 December 2020ministerial_meetings

What this does not establish

The records above establish that Matt Dathan, former Deputy Political Editor, The Sun and Daniel Martin, Policy Editor, Daily Mail 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.