Ministers' Meetings

Met A range of businesses across sectors

To discuss skills

Met Safe World Insurance Group UK

Introductory meeting to discuss government-assured retrofitting measures

Met British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme Trustees

Discussed the British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme and member requests for changes to the scheme

Met Foundation for European Progressive Studies 10th Symposium

To speak about the Government's growth policy

Met Harris Federation

Meeting during Ministerial visit to discuss education policy.

Met Brunswick Group Advisory

To discuss opportunities for economic growth.

Met Bath Spa University

To discuss the risks that franchised provision of Higher Education poses to public funds. To consider views on a governmental consultation regarding strengthening the oversight of partnership delivery

Met Buckinghamshire New University

To discuss the risks that franchised provision of Higher Education poses to public funds. To consider views on a governmental consultation regarding strengthening the oversight of partnership delivery

Met Young Food Ambassadors

To engage with young people on the topic of school food

Met Stena

Meeting to discuss ongoing issues at Holyhead Port following damage by Storm Darragh

Met The Confederation of School Trusts; United Learning; ARK Schools; Unity Schools Partnership; Dixons Academies Trust; Lift Schools; Harris Federation; Orminston Academies Trust; Reach2; Oasis Community Learning; STAR Academies Trust; Outwood Grange Academies Trust

To discuss school system measures that will be introducted as part of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Met ServiceNow

To discuss ServiceNow's work in supporting public service transformation.

Met Darktrace

To discuss the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill.

Met National Housing Federation

To discuss social housing remediation

Met Newsroom Guyana

Media interview during official trip to Guyana

Met British Chamber of Commerce

Meeting to discuss UK/Guyana trade relations

Met CBI

To discuss the impacts of AB24 on business and the organisations' policy priorities

Met Canal+

To discuss UK capital markets.

Met Nuclear Industry Association

To discuss the clean power action plan and small modular reactors

Met EDF

To discuss the Clean Power Action Plan

Met Anti-Racism Intergroup, European Parliament

Working lunch to set out the UK's work on combatting race inequality, and to hear about experiences and positions on combatting race inequality across Europe.

Met Deputy Mayor of London for Communities and Social Justice; Nela Rhiel MEP; Directorate General for Justice and Consumers officials, European Commission; Anti-Racism and Diversity Intergroup, European Parliament; European Commission against Racism and Intolerance.

Discussion on UK and EU priorities and directions of travel in relation to combatting race inequality and discrimination, ahead of a later policy exchange event.

Met General Secretary Fire Brigades Union

Reoccurring meeting to discuss FBU's progress to support manifesto commitments

Met Deputy Chief Constable Cheshire Police and Chief Constable Cheshire Police

Meeting to discuss Operation Hummingbird

Met His Majesty Chief Inspector of Constabulary & Fire and Rescue

To discuss the outcomes and recommendations from the first tranche of inspection into policing�s response to this summer�s disorder.

Met Interim Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration

To discuss on government�s key priorities and updates relating to ongoing inspections.

Met Stagecoach South

Visited Stagecoach South bus depot in Adlershot, to highlgiht the Department's Bus Service Improvement Plan and Bus Service Operators Grant

Met Welsh Water, Herefordshire Council, Wye Valley Area National Landscape

Stakeholder meeting to discuss the Wye Catchment Partnership

Met Virgin Atlantic Ltd

Discussed the UK aerospace sector

Met German Industry UK Dinner: BMW, GIUK, German Business Hub, Miele, German Press Agency, Lufthansa, Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemburg, Heller Machine Tools, Lti Metaltech, CMR Controls, Voith Group, DHL International, MAN Truck and Bus, Buckinghamshire Business First

To discuss UK-German industry

Met Novo Nordisk, Alzheimer's Research UK, University of Manchester, University of Oxford, University of Southampton, University of Glasgow, Imperial College London

To discuss UK life sciences and healthcare goals

Met AIRTO, Oxford Nanopore, Merian Ventures, University of Manchester, SV Health Investors

To discuss R&D landscape and grants system broadly.

Met Kuwait Investment Office

To discuss investments in the UK

Met AlSuwaiket

To discuss investment aspirations in the UK

Met Regional Security System

Meeting with key RSS officials to highlight the UK's role in combating drug smuggling and gang warfare in the region

Met Bereaved family

To discuss primary care and cancer

Met Ministry for Community Development and Social Services; Chronic Poverty Advisory Network Institute for Development Studies; Kivu International (FCDO implementing partner); Consultant Agriculture Specialist

Discussing social cash transfer programme to improve food security and welfare during the drought.

Met Prospect, TUC, Unite

Briefing from Minister Shanks ahead of the Clean Power Action Plan's publication

Met Bipolar UK

to discuss bipolar disorder

Met On the Road to Justice, FACSAware, INFACT National Valproate Campaign, Organisation for Anticonvulsant Syndrome, Valproate Victims, Epilepsy Action, Epilepsy Society

to discuss sodium valproate and the Hughes Report

Met Great Western Railway, Network Rail

A follow up meeting to discuss GWR's performance

Met East West Railway

To discuss EWR's mode of operation

Met Mayfair Equity Partners

To discuss their investment in OVO and Ofgem's investigation

Met Queen Mary University

To discuss the role of Chief Whip.

Met Former Treloar’s School Pupils The Forgotten Few Manor House Group Thalassaemia Society UK The Birchgrove Group Positive Women

Engagement with the Infected Blood Community regarding the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme.

Met Contaminated Blood Campaign Contaminated Blood Women Bloodloss Families Blood Friends The Hepatitis C Trust The Hepatitis B Trust

Engagement with the Infected Blood Community regarding the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme.

Met The New Statesman, Jason Cowley (Editor) and George Eaton (Political editor)

To discuss the government's priorities.

Met TheCityUK, ADS, BAE Systems, James Fisher Defence, Babcock, Rothschild & Co, Make UK Defence, Barclays Bank, UK Finance, Rheinmetall VSI

To discuss defence sector, capabilities and resilience

Met Building Safety Regulator

Introductory meeting to discuss regulation and government-assured retrofitting measures

Met 1Energy, Association of Decentralised Energy, Bring Energy, BUUK Infrastructure, E.ON, Gren Energy, Hemiko, SSE, Switch2, Vattenfall, Veolia, Vital Energi

Meeting of Heat Networks Industry Council to discuss development and benefits of heat networks