Ministers' Meetings

Met Lizzy Buchan, Acting Political Editor at The Mirror

Met for a coffee at Labour Party Conference to discuss Home Office priorities.

Met Families involved in Southport incident

Meeting during visit to express sympathy and support to the families of victims.

Met Vladimir Kara-Murza and family

Meeting to discuss political prisoners and human rights abuses in Russia.

Met Vladimir Kara-Murza and family

To discuss political prisoners and human rights abuses in Russia

Met Child Poverty Action Group

To speak at their annual welfare rights conference and take questions and answers from the audience

Met Morrisons

To discuss the UK business environment and Make Work Pay

Met Federation of Small Businesses

To discuss new Government policy on late payments.

Met Invest in Women Taskforce

Attendence at Webinar to speak about the work of the taskforce and HMG support.

Met MACS Supporting Children and Young People

To discuss their work on housing for care leavers in Northern Ireland

Met Northern Irish Skills Council

To discuss economic growth and how skills relate to housing and planning policy

Met Great Western Railway and Network Rail

To disucss Great Western Railway's performance with Network Rail

Met County Councils network

To discuss planning reform

Met National infrastructure Planning; Association; National Grid; Energy UK; Renewable UK; Arup; Thames Water; AECOM.

To discuss planning reform

Met Gambling with Lives

To discuss gambling-related harms

Met Diageo

To discuss Alcohol Duty

Met Local Government Association Chair, Local Government Association Children and Young People Board

External experts meeting as part of September's Child Poverty Taskforce

Met Thrive Together Birmingham

External experts meeting as part of September's Child Poverty Taskforce

Met Association of Directors of Children's Services, Community Regeneration at the Church of England

External experts meeting as part of September's Child Poverty Taskforce

Met Mayor of North East, Association of Directors of Children's Services, Church of England, Thrive Together Birmingham, Local Government Association, Children and Young People Board

Meeting to bring together representatives from combined and local authorities and leaders in local systems to hear about the experience of poverty in their communities, their approaches to tackling child poverty, and their views on how to best work in partnership?

Met Tukamasea Head of Village (host) and officials, Women Budget Analysis Group, Bantimurung district, Setapak team, The Asia Foundation, Setapak programme local CSO partner, Pilar Nusantara (PINUS), Local community managing the eco-tourism

Visit to witness the implementation of Ecological Fiscal Transfers (EFT) under the Setapak programme and engage in discussions with direct beneficiaries who are mostly women.

Met Bonto Manurung Head of Village (host) and officials, Bonto Manurung village forest management group; Palm Sugar Social Forestry Business Unit, South Sulawesi Women Forest Defender, PT Golata, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, The Asia Foundation, Setapak programme local CSO partners, Pilar Nusantara (PINUS) and, other social forestry business groups in Bonto Manurung and neighbouring villages

Visit to visit the social forestry site under the Setapak programme and engage in discussions with local communities who developed non-timber forest product businesses and women-led forest patrol missions.

Met Premier League

To discuss cooperation on anti-piracy.

Met Human Rights Watch Thailand; Foreign Correspondent Club of Thailand; Chulalongkorn University; Westminster Foundation for Democracy; Fortify Rights

To discuss political and human rights developments in Thailand.

Met SME Broadcast Call

To discuss late payment announcements

Met CEO, Rising Sun charity

In person meeting at the charities offices to discuss their ways of working and the operational impact of government policies

Met Green Finance Institute event with multiple green finance stakeholders

Remarks to Green Finance Institute event entitled 'Renewing Britain's Leadership on the Green Transition.'

Met Standard Chartered Bank, UK-ASEAN Business Council, HSBC, OCS, ACCA Cambodia, HSBC Thailand

A meeting to discuss challenges and opportunities for UK businesses active in ASEAN region.

Met Laura Richards a Criminal Behavioural Analyst

Meeting to discuss Domestic Abuse, Stalking and Sexual Violent homicide

Met Aerospace Growth Partnership: ADS; Spirit AeroSystems; Paker-Meggitt; Airbus; ATI; Cranfield University; Rolls Royce; GKN Aerospace; Hydrogen Manufacturing Value Catapult; Aerospace Wales Forum

Discussed aerospace sector and chair council

Met Child Poverty Taskforce External Experts

The Child Poverty Unit organise an external experts meeting prior to each child poverty taskforce

Met Royal Academy of Engineering

To dicuss QE prize work

Met Tenant Farmers Association (TFA)

Introductory meeting where TFA set out their priorities for the sector and their asks for Secretary of State. Secretary of State discussed his five key priorities for Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs: cleaning up rivers, lakes and seas, creating a roadmap to transition Britian into a zero-waste economy, support farmers, to boost Britain's food security, protect Britain's landscapes and wildlife and protect communities from dangers of flooding. He also discussed tenants role within boosting Britain's food security.

Met AstraZeneca

To discuss AstraZeneca's work in the UK

Met Ben Goldsmith, Henry Dimbleby

Introductory meeting to discuss how to develop the food strategy and what the key aims could be.

Met The Chatterjee Group

Update on the work of the Chaterjee Group

Met British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA)

To discuss the findings of the BVCA's expert panel review on the pensions sector

Met Energy UK

To discuss progress on winter support for consumers

Met Royal Society

R&D and UK science landscape

Met Nesta

Introductory chat to discuss the Minister's priorities and heat decarbonisation

Met Curia, Entity X, MET Fund, Twin Path Ventures, ICE Futures Europe, IBM, C2-Ai, Accenture, Make UK, Bosch, Capgemini

To listen to Curia's findings and reflections on how the Government can leverage the UK�s research to boost economic growth.

Met Thames Tideway Project

Visit with the London Mayor to view the Thames Tideway Project.

Met Octopus Energy

To discuss energy pricing and energy infrastructure

Met Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners

Follow up meeting to discuss Allocation Round 6 (AR6)

Met Stemette

To discuss the work of UKRI, R&D and Skills

Met Confederation of British Industry, Microsoft, Green Energy Options, Centre for Process Innovation, Airbus, UCL, Qumodo.

Technology and Innovation roundtable.

Met Women's Faith Forum

Introductory meeting to discuss the Women's Faith Forum

Met Paula and Tom McGowan

To discuss Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training

Met Nuffield Trust

An introductory meeting to discuss health and social care.

Met Indonesian Association of Women with Disabilities, Hasanuddin University, University of Papua, Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN), The Asia Foundation, Fauna and Flora Indonesia (FFI), Walhi’s South Sulawesi chapter, PT Vale Indonesia

Dinner to hear directly from Eastern Indonesian experts, ranging from academia, civil society organisations to human rights activists on South Sulawesi’s socio-economic situation and future direction of the region’s development pathway

Met Association of Dental Groups

An introductory meeting to discuss dentistry workforce.