Ministers' Meetings

Met Brunel, Access, Boarder to Coast, London CIV, Local Pensions Partnership, West Yorkshire Pensions Fund

To discuss consultation response on the Pensions Investment Review

Met Heather Stewart, The Guardian

Regular engagement with Media Representatives to discuss the UK economy.

Met Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Introductory meeting with the RPS

Met TechUK, Mobile UK, Water UK, OfCom, OfWat, Openreach, BT, VMO2, Vodafone, KCOM

Roundtable at the PSTN conference on telecoms and water industries, held at TechUK

Met IMO Secretary-General

An introductory meeting to discuss decarbonisation and the effect of geopolitics on maritime.

Met Airlines for America

Introductory meeting to discuss Sustainable Aviation Fuel mandate, UK Air Design Service, supply chains and electronic travel authorisation

Met Resolution Foundation, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Women's Budget Group, Confederation for British Industry, Working Families, Child Poverty Action Group, Federation of Small Businesses, Gingerbread, Trade Union Congress

Child Poverty Taskforce External Experts to discuss available approaches to increasing parents� earned incomes, building employment stability and enabling progression in work

Met Parkinson's UK

Meeting to discuss issues related to Personal Independence Payment and employment issues with those with Parkinson's.

Met The Royal Society, The British Academy, Academy of Medical Sciences, Royal Academy of Engineering, Science and Technologies Facilities Council, Medical Research Council, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, National Physical Laboratory, ARIA, Ellison Institute of Technology, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Institute

To discuss R&D landscape and grants system broadly.

Met SV Health Investors

An interview on UK life sciences policy

Met Jewish Community Council

Meeting to gain an understanding of the disability issues facing communities and for the Minister to discuss Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payments with members of the Jewish Community Council.

Met TechUK, MobileUK, OfCom, Openreach, BT, VMO2, PXC, Vodafone, KCOM

Roundtable at the PSTN conference, on PSTN migration, held at Tech UK

Met C2C Rail, Network Rail

To discuss C2C's performance

Met Jo Field

To discuss the Government's rail priorities and how Jo Field can help in her role as President of Women in Transport as well as in her role as a consultant.

Met BT, VirginMedia O2, Openreach, Vodafone, Sky, Talk Talk, KCOM, Zen Internet, OGI, B4RN, CityFibre, WightFibre

Roundtable at the PSTN conference on protection for telecare, held at Tech UK

Met Meta

AI and AI Copyright

Met Stoke-on-Trent City Council; Staffordshire Chambers

To discuss regeneration of Stoke-on-Trent

Met Parkinsons UK

Meeting to gain an understanding of the issues faced by people with Parkinson�s and enable Ministers to explain PIP entitlement rules and employment opportunities for people with Parkinson�s.

Met Motor Neurone Disease Association

Discussion around MNDA's current priorities and their new research on carers of people living with Motor Neurone Disease. Also discussed the support they could provide for the Carers Allowance Overpayment review.

Met National Housing Federation, L&Q Group, Local Government Association, Westminster City Council

To discuss remediation of unsafe buildings

Met Natwest Business Banking and International Retail

To discuss DBT and NatWest?s priorities as well as how NatWest could support the Government?s ambition to boost growth��

Met GMB Union

To discuss House Cleaning Contracts

Met UTC Portsmouth

Meeting to discuss UTC Portsmouth's concerns around the UTC Southampton project

Met National Union of Students

To discuss how the National Union of Students can work together with the government

Met Newcleo

To discuss their work and plans for advanced modular reactors and the development of a new reactor

Met Early education and childcare coalition

To dicuss the implications of the Budget

Met Child Poverty Action Group, Confederation for British Industry, Federation of Small Businesses, Gingerbread, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Resolution Foundation, Trade Union Congress, Women's Budget Group, Working Families

To discuss employment and income as part of the work of the Child Poverty Taskforce to develop a child poverty strategy

Met Commercial Efficiencies and Collaboration Programme Roundtable

To launch the Commercial Efficiencies and Collaboration Programme.

Met Chief Executive of the British Retail Consortium

First meeting to discuss the British Retail Consortium's mission

Met Local Government Association, Border to Coast, Local Pensions Partnership, London CIV, Brunel Pensions Partnership, LGPS Central, Wales Pension Partnership, Northern LGPS

To discuss the Pensions Investment Review, and reform of the Local Government Pensions Scheme

Met Community Security Trust

Meet with Gerald Ronson, Founding Chairman of the Jewish Community Security Trust.

Met Roundtable with experts on Child Poverty

To hear from external experts the best available approaches to increasing parents’ earned incomes, building employment stability and enabling progression in work

Met Paul Cheshire

To discuss the National Planning Policy Framework

Met Richer Sounds

To discuss social housing

Met St Fergus Gas Terminal

Discussion on energy security, North Sea gas handling and the role of National Gas

Met Elstree & Borehamwood Town Council

To discuss housing, temporary accommodation and devolution

Met Energy Transition Zone

Discussion on Energy Transition Zone 's (ETZ's) work regarding the energy transition in Scotland

Met Scottish Renewables

Industry Event on Scottish Consenting hosted by Scottish Renewables

Met Trade Unions Congress, Union of Shop, Distributive & Allied Workers, GMB, Unison, Fire Brigades Union, University and College Union, Unite, Aslef, Communication Workers Union, Prospect, National Education Union, National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers, Community, Royal College of Nursing

To discuss reforms to trade union legislation, collective bargaining and right of access

Met GMB

To discuss GMB?s concerns surrounding the Employment Rights Bill and Amazon

Met Siemens

Discussion on the opening of Siemens Subsea Connector Facility where Siemens design, build, and manufacture subsea connectors for the subsea energy market

Met TAE Fusion

To discuss investment into fusion technology

Met University College of Estate Management; New City College; Leeds College of Building; National Housebuilding Council (NHBC); Construction Industry Training Board (CITB); Construction Leadership Council; Build UK; Industry Competence Committee; Business Board Network; National Housing Decarbonisation Group; Home Builders Federation; Federation of Master Builders; Greater Manchester Combined Authority; West Yorkshire Combined Authority; North East Combined Authority; Liverpool City Region Combined Authority; South Yorkshire Combined Authority; West Midlands Combined Authority; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority; Greater London Authority; West of England Combined Authority; Barratt; Vistry Group; Persimmon; Taylor Wimpey; Bellway; Gleeson; Fairview; Carr & Carr

To discuss construction skills and housebuilding

Met Microsoft

Discussed Assistive Tech market and access to Assistive Tech for disabled people.

Met Alliance for IP

Roundtable discussion on AI/Copyright

Met Mozilla

Discussion on AI oportunities and open source AI.

Met Sustainable Energy for All CEO and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General; Climate Investment Funds.

Event to reaffirm the UK’s commitment and leadership across the modern cooking sector and announce UK ICF funding to accelerate the deployment of modern cooking solutions in developing countries.

Met Activist from Altamira Pará Brazil; Fundo Casa; ELAS+; Founder of the Green Girls Platform; Climate Watch Thailand

Event on locally-led and gender-responsive climate adaptation.

Met International Union for the Conservation of Nature; Shifting the Power Coalition Pacific Islands; Badabon Sangho

Event to discuss gender based violence and climate change

Met Leeds Beckett University

To discuss Higher Education at Leeds Beckett University