Ministers' Meetings

Met Gingerbread

Meeting to discuss the Child Poverty Strategy and Child Maintenance Service

Met Mete Coban MBE, C40, Gillian Martin MSP, Andrew Muir MLA, Cllr Victor Chamberlain, Cllr Tony Dyer, UK100, Climate Group

Roundtable to discuss enabling local and regional delivery of the Coalition for High Ambition Multilevel Partnerships (CHAMP) pledge through existing forums, flexible net zero approaches, regional coordination, and blended finance to unlock investment

Met Lowdham Flood Action Group; Newark and Sherwood District Council; Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust; Epperstone Parish Council; Epperstone Flood Prevent Group; Bilsthorpe Flooding Group; Trent Rivers Trust; Gunthorpe Resident impacted by flooding; Former lead on Emergency Planning at Nottinghamshire County Council

Meeting on flood resilience in Sherwood Forest

Met Circle

Meeting to discuss the development of the UK regulatory regime for cryptoassets and stablecoins

Met FreeAgent roundtable

To discuss Making Tax Digital

Met EWI Pro, Insulated Render and Cladding Association

To discuss external wall insulation, consumer protection and the Warm Homes Plan

Met EQT, IVC Evidensia

meeting to discuss regulatory framework and barriers to investment in the veterinary space

Met British Retail Consortium

To discuss product labelling.

Met Heathrow Airport

meeting to discuss progress of plans for Heathrow Airport expansion

Met Uber

Meeting to discuss investment into the UK

Met State Street

Meeting to discuss financial services growth and competitiveness strategy

Met Hargreaves Lansdown; JP Morgan Asset Management; LSEG; Vanguard; Lloyds; St James' Place; Barclays

Roundtable to discuss capital markets and retail investment in the Financial Services Growth & Competitiveness Strategy

Met British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association

To discuss investment, innovation, and the clean energy transition

Met Doreen Soulsby

Discussed victims experience of parole process

Met Community benefits roundtable, Renewable UK, Energy UK, Orsted, Equinor, RWE, SSE, Scottish Power Renewables, Regen, Stratkraft, EDF UK, OnPath Energy, Vattenfall, Nadara, Solar Energy UK

An introductory discussion, covering the relationship between HMG and GBE-N and updates on GBE-N's development

Met British Fashion Council

Discussion post the launch of the Industrial Trade Strategy

Met Merseyside Police and Crime Commissioner

Crown Court sitting days

Met National Association of Standing Advisory Councils on Religious Education

To discuss religious education in schools

Met Macquarie

To discuss offshore wind and investment challenges

Met Chair of Bar Standards Board

Meeting to discuss various issues in support of its consultation on a new five-year strategy

Met Cross Country, Network Rail

To discuss Cross Country's performance and ways in which they can improve

Met University of Oxford

To discuss net zero collaboration and opportunities for Science and Technology in the United Kingdom.

Met Google Deepmind, META, Tokamak Energy, Amadeus Capital Partners, SV Health Investors, Starling Bank, Google, Starling Bank

Roundtable to discuss UK technology collaboration.

Met Schmidt Futures

Meeting to discuss clinical trials in the UK

Met Barclays, British Business Bank (BBB), UK Finance, NatWest, HSBC, BVCA (British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association), The Gender Index, ScaleUp Institute, AA Advisers, Diversity VC, Lloyds Banking Group, The Entrepreneurs Network (TEN), and Tramshed Tech.

To discuss women’s entrepreneurship

Met Rainbow Migration

To discuss LGBT+ rights in the UK

Met Open Justice

Meeting on Leveson Review

Met Mother of Victim

Meeting to discuss her Daughters case

Met Roche

To discuss the pharmaceutical landscape in the UK

Met Association of Police and Crime Commissioners

Discusses VAC Bill and Spending Review

Met Bill Gates, The Gates Foundation

Short meeting to discuss GAVI and vaccine manufacturing

Met European Humanitarian Forum

To Discuss UK-EU relations and the EU Civil protection Mechanism

Met Children's Investment Fund; UPS; Bayer Foundation; Signalytic; Integrate Health

To discuss private sector engagement with global health

Met Flint Global

To discuss the Trade Strategy

Met Fairtrade Foundation

To discuss the Trade Strategy

Met Smith and Nephew

To discuss the Trade Strategy

Met Urban Synergy

To discuss collaborating on closing the skills gap and linking young people and businesses in London

Met Consular meeting

Discussion of consular case

Met Ben Goldsmith

To discuss nature and the Planning and Infrastructure Bill

Met TRNC ("Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus") leader Mr Ersin Tatar meeting

To encourage constructive engagement with 5+1 informal talks (Republic of Cyprus, "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus", UK, Greece and Turkey plus the UN) on Cyprus

Met TRNC ("Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus") Opposition Leader Tufan Erhurman

To encourage constructive engagement with 5+1 informal talks (Republic of Cyprus, "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus", UK, Greece and Turkey plus the UN) on Cyprus

Met FDF (Food and Drink Federation)

To discuss the Trade Strategy

Met Trade Justice Movement

To discuss the Trade Strategy

Met Digital Taskforce for Planning

To discuss artificial intelligence and digital transformation in the planning sector

Met Universities UK

To discuss higher education franchising

Met European Centre for International Political Economy

To discuss the Trade Strategy

Met TUC (Trade Union Congress)

To discuss the Trade Strategy

Met UK National Commission for UNESCO

To discuss how the UKNC can best support the Department's priorities, especially in areas such as the Opportunity Mission and soft power

Met Independent Safeguarding Board (ISB) 11 - A group of sexual abuse survivors

Meeting with survivors of sexual abuse within faith settings

Met The Humane League, Animal Equality, Open Cages, Humane Slaughter Association, RSPCA, Compassion in World Farming, World Animal Protection

Farmed animal welfare NGO roundtable: Roundtable co hosted by Baroness Hayman and Minister Zeichner to discuss the government's strategic vision for animal welfare. Issues raised included: Confinement systems, welfare at slaughter policy, labelling, and the desire to move with the EU. Many attendees raised concerns around farmed fish and the need to move away from farrowing crates