# Burnham faces pressure over deleted City dinners

> Records show the prime minister dined with Manchester City's chairman twice while mayor, but the entries were reportedly deleted from the authority's website.
- Title: Burnham faces pressure over deleted City dinners | Shortify
- Summary: Records show the prime minister dined with Manchester City's chairman twice while mayor, but the entries were reportedly deleted from the authority's…
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- Source: The Independent — https://independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/andy-burnham-man-city-dinners-chairman-b3066598.html
- Published: 2026-10-14T14:29:38+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: andy burnham, manchester city, khaldoon al mubarak, greater manchester, hospitality, declarations, politics, news
## Dinners with City chairman emerge
Andy Burnham dined with Manchester City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak at matches in two thousand seventeen and two thousand eighteen while serving as mayor of Greater Manchester.
## Records reportedly deleted
The register of declarations containing these dinners was reportedly deleted from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority website after the initial statement on Monday.
## GMCA's initial statement omitted them
The Greater Manchester Combined Authority did not mention the dinners in its Monday statement, which listed other meetings between Burnham and Al Mubarak but not these two.
## Burnham's office defends the omission
Burnham's press secretary said the statement covered hospitality received at matches and that declarations were made in the usual way, but declined to explain why entries were deleted.

> He was a guest of Manchester City at home matches on a small number of occasions.
## Opposition demands transparency
Shadow sports minister Louie French urged Burnham to come clean, saying he cannot hide behind the GMCA and must explain what was discussed at the meetings.

> If Burnham has nothing to hide, why is he being so tight-lipped?
## Burnham says no charges were raised
Burnham told Parliament on Wednesday that Manchester City's owners and directors did not raise the Premier League's charges against the club when he met with them.
## Key takeaway

Andy Burnham is under pressure to explain deleted records of two dinners with Manchester City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak during his time as Greater Manchester mayor.