Ministers' Meetings

Met Chris Mason, Political Editor, BBC News

General discussion of the work of the department

Met A range of businesses across sectors

To discuss skills

Met Newton Impact

The Minister met with two employees of Newton to discuss their previous work accross other Government Departments and how they could potentially apply these learnings to the Department for Work and Pensions.

Met Director Youth Endowment Fund

Reoccurring meeting to discuss YEF's support on delivering on manifesto commitments

Met Lampard Inquiry Families

to discuss the Lampard Inquiry

Met University of Southampton

To discuss the 2025 opening of the University of Southampton's campus in India and the wider potential of a UK-India education partnership

Met Big Brother Watch, Liberty Human Rights, Migrants Rights, JUSTICE, Ada Lovelave Institute, Alan Turing Institute, Chair of MyEnds Croydon Programme

Facial Recognition Civil Society Stakeholders Roundtable

Met British Chamber of Commerce

Meeting to discuss UK/Guyana trade relations

Met Newsroom Guyana

Media interview during official trip to Guyana

Met Canal+

To discuss UK capital markets.

Met CBI

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

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 Octopus Energy

To discuss publication of the Clean Power Action Plan

Met Microgeneration Certification Scheme

Introductory meeting to discuss access to consumer support and assurance

Met Blue Flame Certification, British Assessment Bureau, British Board of Agr�ment, Building Safety Regulator, Certsure, Installation Assurance Authority, National Association of Professional Inspectors and Testers, Phenna Group, Simply Certification, TrustMark, United Kingdom Accreditation Service

Roundtable with certification bodies to discuss 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

Met Building Safety Regulator

Introductory meeting to discuss regulation and government-assured retrofitting measures

Met OEUK

To discuss North Sea consultation on licensing

Met Association of Colleges; Sixth Form Colleges Association; Bridgwater and Taunton College; Nelson and Colne College Group; Association of School and College Leaders

Roundtable on qualifications reform

Met Great Western Railway, Network Rail

A follow up meeting to discuss GWR's performance

Met British Chambers of Commerce

To discuss publication of the Clean Power Action Plan

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 CBI

To discuss publication of the Clean Power Action Plan

Met East West Railway

To discuss EWR's mode of operation

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

Stakeholder meeting to discuss the Wye Catchment Partnership

Met National Gas

Discussed hydrogen in the network and Clean Power 2030

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

To discuss R&D landscape and grants system broadly.

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 Prospect, TUC, Unite

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

Met RWE

To discuss publication of the Clean Power Action Plan

Met National Grid

To discuss publication of the Clean Power Action Plan

Met Visa

To discuss support for local growth

Met OVO Energy

To discuss climate and sustainability education

Met Queen Mary University

To discuss the role of Chief Whip.

Met Wildlife and Countryside Link

To discuss young people's access to nature

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 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 Bereaved family

To discuss primary care and cancer

Met Kuwait Investment Office

To discuss investments in the UK

Met eBay

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

Met Octopus Energy

To discuss best practice on customer services

Met Barclays

To discuss best practice on customer services

Met BIA

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

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

To discuss the government's priorities.

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 Mayfair Equity Partners

To discuss their investment in OVO and Ofgem's investigation

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 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 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.