Ministers' Meetings

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 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 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 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 BIA

To discuss R and D (error and fraud but also forward looking announcements in corporate tax roadmap).

Met Barclays

To discuss best practice on customer services

Met eBay

To discuss the impact of the Budget announcements on business rates on the retail sector

Met Local Government Association

To discuss the National Planning Policy Framework

Met Age UK

Discussion with CEO of Age UK on eVisas, ahead of sit-down interview that Age UK recorded with the Minister.

Met Tainted Blood Haemosexual Independent campaigner for misdiagnosed

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

Met Centre for Social Justice

to discuss Modern Slavery priorities

Met Council of Europe group of experts

Action against Human trafficking

Met Adult Sexual Exploitation (ASE)

support for survivors of Adult Sexual Abuse and Exploitation

Met The Fatherless Generation Tainted Blood Parents Tainted Blood Siblings and Children Terrence Higgins Trust Factor 8 Independent Campaigner for Estates, Women & Carers Tainted Blood Widows

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

Met Western Power; UK Power Sector Expert; First Quantum Minerals; Ananza Power; InfraCo Africa

Roundtable to discuss reform of the energy sector and investment opportunities and how UK has played a vital role of convening, advising and financing major stakeholders in the energy sector to achieve transformational change.

Met Disability Charities Consortium

Meeting with members of DCC to discuss the Get Britain Working White Paper and reinforcing the government's commitment to the principle of working with disabled people.

Met Disabilities Charities Consortium Meeting

Meeting with members of DCC to discuss the Get Britain Working White Paper and reinforcing the government's commitment to the principle of working with disabled people.

Met Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

To discuss building safety and community support

Met Institute for Government

Meeting to discuss the support that Institute for Government can provide to Ministers

Met New Economic Foundation

Meeting to discuss conditionality and employment support.

Met United Nations Relief and Works Agency

Meeting to discuss UNWRA’s work to provide aid to Gazans, its commitment to implementing the outcomes of the recent Colonna report, and to reiterate the UK’s political and financial support to UNWRA

Met Apple Inc

Meeting to discuss Apple's investment in the UK, and skills

Met Haemophilia Society Haemophilia Society Haemophilia Scotland Scottish Infected Blood Forum Haemophilia NI Haemophilia Wales Friends and Families of Haemophilia NI

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

Met Jaguar Land Rover

To discuss business environment and ZEV mandate

Met Zambia Electricity Supply Corporation Limited (ZESCO); UK Power Sector Expert

Visit to power centre to highlight UK support to the sector

Met Uniserve

Meeting while on visit to global HQ to discuss skills and training, supply chains, logistics and application of science and AI, ship building and capacity in the UK and clean maritime

Met Theresa May

To discuss the government manifesto on Violence Against Woman and Girls

Met Francis Sosu MP & Simons Muirhead Burton (SMB)

To discuss the death penalty in Ghana.

Met Special Envoy for the Nutrition for Growth Summit (N4G)

To discuss nutrition and N4G

Met Uganda Climate Finance Accelerator

To make a keynote speech at an event connecting Ugandan entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.

Met Sheffield College; University of Sheffield; Barnsley College; Sheffield Hallam University

Two roundtables with education institutions on cross-sectoral work as part of the Test and Learn programme anda visit to Family Hub as part of ministerial trip to Sheffield; engagement with the midwifery team.

Met Co-Op; Whitbread; Jaguar Land Rover; BP; WPP; Vodafone; Berkeley Group; Unilever; Relx.

Roundtable to discuss the UK's investment environment.

Met Forbes Family Group

Meeting to discuss business investment and expansion, as well as supporting BME founders access capital.

Met National Archive Zambia; Southern Africa Institute for Policy Analysis and Research

Visit to UK funded exhibition to understand and celebrate Zambia’s journey from independence to present day.

Met Lansdowne Partners

To discuss the UK investment environment and capital markets

Met Aviva, NEST Corporation, Glasgow Financial Allianze for Net Zero, London Stock Exchange Group, Legal & General Investment Management, International Sustainability Standards Board, World Wildlife Fund UK

Meeting of the Transition Plan Taskforce Steering Group reviewing the impact of the delivery of the Taskforce's mandate

Met Bereaved maternity families

to discuss maternity services

Met Chief of Protocol, MFA & youngest daughter of the First President of Zambia

To lay wreath for Zambia’s founding father and first President

Met Jaguar Land Rover

To hold an introductory meeting to discuss the ZEV Mandate and JLRs UK priorities with the CEO Adrian Mardell

Met Deerfield

To discuss the UK university spinouts ecosystem

Met House Magazine

Discussion on domestic national security

Met Bereaved families

To discuss maternity policy

Met NBCUniversal

To discuss UK investment opportunities

Met World Bank; AgDevCo; Kivu International

Dinner on Zambia’s development and explore your ideas on what modern development partnerships look like in the Zambian context

Met Equality and Human Rights Commission, Information Commissioner, Investigatory Powers Commissioner, Forensic Science Regulator, HMICFRS, Deputy Biometrics Commissioner, Met Police and NPCC Facial Recognition Lead, Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group, Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, MOPAC lead for Biometrics and Forensics, NPCC CCTV Lead, College of Policing

Biometrics and Overt Surveillance Roundtable

Met POLITICO

Discussion on domestic national security

Met Oracle

Discussion on AI and AI adoption

Met Reid Hoffman

To discuss AI Policy and the drive for AI opportunties in the UK