Ministers' Meetings

Met Hetti Barkworth-Nanton & Diana Parkes

Sentencing Bill Engagement

Met BioNTech

To discuss the Life Sciences Sector Plan

Met Can't Buy My Silence

To discuss the Employment Rights Bill and non-disclosure agreements

Met Mastercard

To discuss making the UK a good business destination, AI training, the Industrial Strategy

Met Google Deepmind

To discuss modelling applications

Met Multiverse

To discuss upskilling in the UK labour market

Met Industrial Strategy Advisory Council: University of Manchester, Software NI, University of Cambridge, University of Warwick Innovation District, Octopus Energy, LSE, Associated British Ports, TUC, Community Trade Union

Brief drop in to regular meeting of the Industrial Strategy Advisory Council. All attendees attended in their role as Council members, rather than on behalf of their organisations.

Met Nissan

To discuss UK operations and the global automotive business environment

Met Local Trust

To discuss local growth

Met Electoral Commission

To discuss various topics including regulation and the wider digital space.

Met GMB Union

Update on industrial relations

Met Teach the Future

To discuss retrofits in schools

Met Cardinal Vaughan School

Met with teaching internship staff

Met CWU

To discuss Royal Mail

Met Professor Dieter Helm

Meeting to discuss water reform

Met Energy UK

To discuss the Government's review of Ofgem, smart meters, and heat networks

Met Youth Employment

To discuss their campaign to improve awareness of different careers in the NHS

Met SeAH Steel

To discuss an ongoing investment project and the UK's Industrial Strategy

Met Car Wash Association

To discuss worker exploitation and non-compliance in the hand car wash sector

Met Business roundtable (Answer Digital, Wuva, Twin Sciences and Robotics, Gerald McDonald and Co., Purple Goat Agency, Martha Brook, Creative Nature, EXEAT, Porotech, Inkfire, Jomas Associates)

To discuss the upcoming Plan for SMEs

Met FTI Consultancy, The Insolvency Service

Discussed ongoing work with the Official Receiver to stabilise the Prax refinery

Met Ellison Institute of Technology

To discuss healthcare

Met National Pension Service

To discuss the National Pension Service's investment ambitions in the UK

Met 8Dex

To understand commercial views on the potential of the Creative Content Exchange and potential collaborators on the role government should take to support data exchanges.

Met Wellcome Leap

To discuss human health

Met Trainline

To discuss how we can best develop and deliver the Government's Plan for Change in a way that supports your organisation and sector.

Met Paragon Bank

To discuss bank capital requirements

Met RSA Insurance

To discuss insurance sector priorities

Met Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association

To discuss US-UK financial services and US relations

Met Anna Maxwell Martin

To discuss children's health

Met Daisy Lewis

To discuss addiction and mental health

Met Airbus

To discuss US trade

Met Phoenix Group Holdings, Jeremy Hunt

Meeting to discuss the Pension Review

Met Caroline Waterston, Editor, and Lizzy Buchan, Political Editor, The Mirror

Routine media engagement

Met Airbus

To discuss UK operations and global aerospace business environment

Met Boeing

To discuss US trade

Met Commercial Bank of Kuwait

Roundtable at the Commercial Bank of Kuwait

Met Kuwait Diplomatic Institute

Meeting young diplomats

Met Empowering Deaf Society

Street Party for local Deaf Community

Met Meeting with Syrian female-run food microbusinesses

Meeting with Syrian businesses supported by the UK 'Building Local Resilience in Syria' programme

Met Meeting with young Syrians

To discuss social cohesion and Syrian identity

Met White Helmets

Tour of the White Helmets HQ in Damascus

Met Association of Directors of Children's Services

To discuss the Best Start in Life Strategy

Met REAch2 Academy Trust

To discuss Best Start in Life announcement

Met Dingley's Promise

To discuss Best Start in Life announcement

Met Ofcom

To discuss the consultation on Universal Service Obligation reform

Met Local Government Association

To discussthe Best Start in Life Strategy

Met London Early Years Foundation

To discuss Best Start in Life announcement

Met National Day Nurseries Association

To discuss publication of the Best Start in Life Strategy

Met Early Education and Childcare Coalition

To discuss publication of the Best Start in Life Strategy