Ministers' Meetings

Met Local Government Association

To discuss issues facing local government and plans for ongoing engagement.

Met British Business Bank

Meeting with the BBB to discuss investment in the UK and National Wealth Fund policy design

Met Merseyside Police Force

Visit to the force to utilise the time spent in Merseyside

Met Silverstream Technologies

Business visit to discuss challenges and opportunities for small businesses trading domestically and overseas.

Met Local Government Association

To discuss priorities for the local government sector

Met Lancashire County Council

Introductory meeting to dicsuss Lancashire County Council's priorties

Met Local Government Association Advisory Board

To discuss priorities for the local government sector

Met Unite Union

Introductory chat to discuss the Minister's priorities including the Just Transition

Met GMB Union

Introductory chat to discuss the Minister's priorities including the Just Transition

Met Offshore Energies UK

Introductory chat to discuss the Minister's priorities including the Just Transition

Met London Tea Exchange

Business visit to discuss challenges and opportunities for small businesses trading domestically and overseas.

Met Berkeley Group

To discuss housing supply

Met Confederation of British Industry (CBI), AstraZeneca, Confederation of British Metal forming, The Recruitment and Employment Confederation, Lloyds Banking Group, Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS AG), The University of Leeds, S-RM Intelligence and Risk Consulting Limited, The Building Societies Association, Smurfit Westrock, Safran UK, Barclays, Equinor UK Ltd, ExxonMobil, Heathcoat Fabrics Limited, Eni CCUS Holdings Limited, Phillips 66, National Grid, Honda, Food and Drink Federation, Marsh Ltd, Accenture UK and Ireland, Russell Reynolds Associates Inc, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), Blake Morgan, EY Financial Services, Drax, Robert Bosch Ltd, AlixPartners UK LLP, (City) University of London, UK Chamber of Shipping, Haleon, University College London (UCL)

Keynote speaker at CBI Business Leaders' Roundtable

Met UKIE

introductory meeting to opportunities and challenges facing the video games industry

Met Nautilus

Broad discussion of seafarer rights and welfare reforms

Met Junior Doctors Committee, British Medical Assoication

To discuss the Junior Doctors dispute

Met Ofcom

Introductory meeting to discuss priorities for the government across tech and online safety, as well as implementation of the OSA.

Met British Fashion Council

introductory meeting to opportunities and challenges facing the British Fashion Industry

Met Terrence Higgins Trust, National AIDS Trust

To discuss HIV treatment and prevention

Met GP Committee, British Medical Association

To discuss industrial relations

Met British Medical Association - GP Committee England

To discuss industrial relations

Met British Medical Association General Practitioner's Committee

An introductory meeting to discuss primary care.

Met British Medical Association - Resident Doctors Committee

To discuss industrial relations

Met RMT

Broad discussion of seafarer rights and welfare reforms

Met Port of Dover

Working lunch on a visit to the Port of Dover with Doug Bannister (CEO) and Kent and Medway Resilience Forum

Met Disability Rights UK, Inclusion London

Meeting with Disabled People's Forum of England to establish commitment to working with different groups representative of disabled people

Met BT Group

An introductory meeting with the CEO of BT Group to discuss digital infrastructure in UK

Met Alex Soros

Meeting to discuss geopolitics

Met RAC

Brief introductory call with Head of External Affairs, Simon Williams to discuss the RAC's priorities including local roads, road safety, headlight glare and roads maintenance.

Met AA

Brief introductory call with President, Edmund King OBE to discuss the AA's priorities including roads maintenance, road safety, driving test wait times and automated vehicles.

Met Royal College of Psychiatrists

To discuss the Mental Health Bill

Met BT

Introductory discussion covering telecoms landscape

Met The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT)

Brief introductory call with Chief Executive, Mike Hawes and Director of Policy, Konstanze Scharring to discuss the SMMT's priorities including the ZEV Mandate, the implementation of the Automated Vehicles Act, and the future of vehicle standards regulation in the UK.

Met Child Poverty Action Group, Children's Society, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Trade Unions Congress, Child Poverty Action Group, Action for Children, Save the Children, Gingerbread, UNICEF, Barnado's, National Children's Bureau, Centre for Young Lives

Child Poverty Roundtable to hear from stakeholders on: What they see as the main drivers of child poverty and Suggestions for Improving the situation under the new government

Met Logistics UK

Brief introductory call with Chief Executive, David Wells to discuss Logistics UK's priorities including cross-modal decarbonisation of the sector and resilience at borders.

Met Skills for Care

Introductory meeting to discuss adult social care workforce.

Met Mencap

To discuss the Mental Health Bill

Met Business Disability Forum, Scope, Sense, Royal National Institute of Blind People, National Autistic Society, Royal National Institute for Deaf People, Leonard Cheshire, Mencap, Mind

To outline the government's commitment to the principle of working with disabled people

Met Shelter

To discuss the importance of Shelter's work and reaffirming the pledge to support the principle of working with disabled people

Met Creative Industries Council

Introductory meeting with Chair of CIC (Sir Peter Bazalgette) to discuss opportunities and challenges facing the creatives industries, and the role of the council in delivering the Ministers' priorities

Met Dr Sanjoy Kumar

To discuss the introduction of the Mental Health Bill

Met Professor Sir Simon Wessely

To discuss the introduction of the Mental Health Bill

Met Road Haulage Association

Brief introductory call with Managing Director, Richard Smith to discuss the RHA's priorities including planning and infrastructure, driver welfare, tackling freight crime and skills shortages in the sector, and the road to net zero.

Met Multiple Sclerosis Society, Barnet Inclusion, Mencap

To establish constructive relationsips with Disability Benefits Consortium and reinforce pledge to work with disabled people

Met Aldersgate Group

Introductory chat to discuss the Minister's priorities and the Climate Change Committee's (CCC) progress report

Met GMB Union

Follow up on introductory call to discuss the Office for Clean Energy Jobs and the Just Transition

Met EDF Renewables, SSE Renewables, Scottish Power Renewables, Renewable Energy Systems Ltd, RWE, Vattenfall, Nadara, BayWa r.e, Renewable UK, Scottish Renewables, Nordex, Hitachi Energy, Prospect

To discuss the creation of the Onshore Wind Taskforce and its priorities

Met Greater London Authority

To discuss devolution

Met Aviva

To discuss the Government’s Investment and Growth agenda, the National Wealth Fund Taskforce, Transition Plan Taskforce and Women in Finance.

Met Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance

To discuss Post Office GLO redress schemes