Ministers' Meetings

Met Fuels Industry UK

To discuss the closure of Grangemouth refinery

Met Baroness Ritchie

To discuss matters in Northern Ireland

Met Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons

Discussions on Veterinary Surgeons Act, Animal Health, Competition and Markets Authority's investigation, Public Health care.

Met ArtUK

To launch the Museum Data Service

Met Gloucestershire Lead Local Flood Authority (LLFA)

Flood Resilience Taskforce Meeting. The Taskforce will co-ordinate flooding preparation and provide long-term, strategic thinking to better protect communities.

Met Lord Douglas Miller

Discussions on the Water (special measures) bill

Met Gloucestershire Local Resilience Forum (LRF)

Flood Resilience Taskforce Meeting. The Taskforce will co-ordinate flooding preparation and provide long-term, strategic thinking to better protect communities.

Met Connected Britain, hyperoptic, connexin, brsk, ms3, fullfibre, ix wireless, openreach, UKTCA, b4rn, cityfibre, ispa, inca, kcom, ofcom, toob

To give a speech and meet with operators to discuss telegraph poles

Met National Farmers� Union

Flood Resilience Taskforce Meeting. The Taskforce will co-ordinate flooding preparation and provide long-term, strategic thinking to better protect communities.

Met National Fire Chiefs� Council (NFCC)

Flood Resilience Taskforce Meeting. The Taskforce will co-ordinate flooding preparation and provide long-term, strategic thinking to better protect communities.

Met National Flood Forum

Flood Resilience Taskforce Meeting. The Taskforce will co-ordinate flooding preparation and provide long-term, strategic thinking to better protect communities.

Met Deputy Mayor of London for Environment and Energy

Introductory chat to discuss shared policy priorities, including warm homes and fuel poverty

Met Bit.Bio and the Cambridge Biomedical Campus

As part of a visit to Cambridge, the Minister visited Bit.Bio and Cambridge Biomedical Campus

Met Petroineous

To discuss government response to the closure of the Grangemouth refinery

Met Rachel Wearmouth, Tim Ross, Authors

Interview for a book on the general election

Met International Trade Union Confederation

Introductory meeting to exchange views on mutual priorities for development in Africa.

Met GAVI The Vaccine Alliance

Introductory meeting to convey UK's enduring support for GAVI and GAVI's role in Mpox response.

Met Director of Public Prosecutions

A first meeting to highlight key issues on: Safer Streets Mission, Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) issues and Police-Crown Prosecution Service relationship.

Met Tent Partnership for Refugees

Meeting with Tent Partnership for Refugees to discuss the work that the charity does, specifically focussing on refugee integration into the UK labour market.

Met Babcock International Group plc

To open Dock 09 with Babcock

Met Indonesian UK Parliamentary Friendship Group

To discuss strengthening relations between parliamentarians in Indonesia and the UK.

Met Unite the Union

Introductory meeting with Steve Turner, to discuss key Unite Priorities including ZEV Mandate and Low Carbon Fuels.

Met Citizens' Advice

To discuss the work of Citizens Advice

Met Partnership for Jewish Schools (PaJeS)

To discuss the taxation of private schools

Met Members of the Public

To discuss trade unions in Africa.

Met Confederation of British Industry (CBI), British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), Institute of Directors (IoD), 100 Group, Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT), Tax Professional Forum, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), Institute for Government (IfG), Tax Policy Associates, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW)

Roundtable to discuss the corporate tax roadmap

Met British Chambers of Commerce Business Council

To discuss the UK business environment

Met Johanna Baxter MP, Tracey Allen

To discuss support for immunocompromised people

Met Novartis

To discuss ongoing partnership regarding Inclisiran

Met BOND Advisary Group

To discuss Gaza and the suspension of military equipment.

Met David Miliband

To discuss issues in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

Met Vertical Aerospace

Introductory meeting and broad discussion of the companies' latest achievements, airpsace modernisation and aeropsace sector skills development

Met Aerospace Technology Institute

Introductory meeting and broad discussion on aviation decarbonisation

Met Future Flight Challenge

Introductory meeting and broad discussion on the role of the challenge and future funding issues

Met Beryl

Meeting with CEO of Beryl (Philip Ellis) to discuss matters regarding E-scooter insurance

Met Association of British HealthTech Industries

To discuss life science

Met Local Government Pension Scheme Advisory Board

To discuss the Local Government Pensions Scheme

Met District Council Network

To discuss devolution

Met Barclays; HSBC; NatWest; Lloyds Baking Group; Santander; Nationwide; Standard Chartered.

Roundtable to discuss financial services priorities including financial services regulation and contribution to UK growth.

Met South Cambridgeshire District Council; Greater Cambridge Partnership; Cambridgeshire County Council; Cambridge City Council; Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

To discuss the Cambridge economy

Met Oxford-Cambridge Supercluster Board; University of Cambridge; Cambridge Ahead; Start Codon; Abcam; Innovate Cambridge; Cambridge Biomedical Campus Ltd; Cambridge University Health Partners; Cambridge Innovation Capital; AstraZeneca; Oxford to Cambridge Pan Regional Partnership.

To discuss the Cambridge economy

Met Ayelet Svatitzky

Meeting to express condolences on the death of her brother, Nadav Popplewell, who was held hostage in Gaza.

Met Baringa

To discuss digital transformation of public services

Met Barclays, HSBC, NatWest, Lloyds, Santander UK, Nationwide, Standard Chartered

Roundtable to discuss prudential regulation and its relation to growth

Met UK Finance, Lloyds Banking Group, Barclays UK, NatWest Group, HSBC UK, Santander UK, Virgin Money, TSB, Danske Bank UK, Bank of Ireland UK

Roundtable to discuss the rollout of banking hubs across the UK

Met National Housing Federation

Introductory stakeholder call with National Housing Federation to discuss their priorities for housing

Met British Sign Language Advisory Board

Introductory meeting to discuss education, government communications and delivered a very short statement on working with the British Sign Language Advisory Board Advisory board

Met The National Lottery's ParalympicsGB Homecoming

Attended the ParalympicGB homecoming event to welcome back atheletes from the successful Paris 2024 Games

Met Phoenix Group

Meeting to discuss long term savings and retiremtent

Met Insitiute for Fiscal Studies

Event to talk through recent IFS reports.