Ministers' Meetings

Met New Financial

Meeting to discuss barriers and opportunities for improving UK retail investment

Met London Market Group

Meeting to discuss captive insurance, next steps for the regulators competitiveness strategies and the financial service industry’s thoughts on Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) negotiations

Met Standard Chartered, Children Investment Fund Foundation, NatureFinance

Meeting of the London Coalition Secretariat to discuss progress of the London Coalition

Met UK Finance, Finance & Leasing Association, Investment Association, Association of British Insurers, Personal Investment Management & Financial Advice Association

Meeting to discuss regulatory reform

Met Trussell, Newquay Foodbank, Leeds City Council

Across Party Parliamentary Group Meeting to discuss the future of local crisis support.

Met Energy UK

To discuss Government's review of Ofgem, the Warm Homes Plan, and the Radio Teleswitch service switch-off

Met Amani Khan, Producer, ITV News

Interview on Deposit Return Scheme

Met AESC

Meeting with AESC on growth priorities, as part of US Trade Deal and announcement of National Wealth Fund guarantee to unlock investment in a Sunderland gigafactory.

Met Planning Inspectorate

Meeting with the senior management team of the Planning Inspectorate to discuss how the Inspectorate and MHCLG will work together

Met Amazon Web Services; CoreWeave; CloudHQ; ServiceNow; Nvidia; Microchip; Vantage Data Centres; Equinix; CyrusOne; FlawlessAI; PortiaAI; ZekiData; Seedcamp; LocalGlobe; Quench.AI; Cosine; PhysicsX; Orbital Materials

To discuss investment in AI driven start-ups in the UK

Met Forging ahead

To discuss collaboration in the midlands

Met Northeastern University, Miami Dade College, Miami Dade County, Sustainable Development Capital LLC, Miami Dade OIED, Jones Lang LaSallee, Miami Dade College Health Campus

To discuss Miami-Dade institutions, university-led innovation to advance climate resilience, and opportunities for scalable funding mechanisms, regulatory reform, and public engagement to overcome political and infrastructural barriers to adaptation

Met Nationwide

Call to update on international financial developments

Met Santander UK

Call to update on international financial developments

Met Social Enterprise UK

To discuss the work of the Social Impact Investment Advisory Group (SIIAG)

Met Good Growth Foundation

To discuss a range of skills and apprenticeship related matters

Met Open University

Conversation in lieu of a rescheduled visit

Met Tech UK

Attended Technology roundtable discussing MoJ's technology suite

Met Nissan

To discuss the company's operations in the UK

Met Vestas

To discuss AR7, floating offshore wind and investment in Scotland

Met Clean Energy Sector Council

Met Jaguar Land Rover, International Airlines Group, Tata Steel, Diageo, HSBC, Barclays, Unilever, GSK, Reckitt Benkiser, Airbus

Video meeting with business leaders during visit to discuss the US trade deal

Met National Housing Federation; Lloyds Banking Group; The Nationwide Foundation; Shelter;

To discuss the Government's Long Term Housing Strategy

Met Faith in the City

To discuss the Faith in the City project

Met Ben Taylor, deputy editor of the Sunday Times

Press Engagement

Met Tony Gallagher, Editor of the Times, Steve Swinford, political editor of the Times

Press Engagement

Press Engagement

Met Opening Tech UK Roundtable

Stakeholder Engagement

Met Consular meeting

Meeting to discuss ongoing consular case.

Met VE Day 80 events

VE DAY 80

Met Voice of the Postmaster, Communication Workers Union

To discuss the Green Paper

Met The Seam, ACS Clothing, Give Your Best, Marks and Spencer, Centre for Sustainable Fashion, University of the Arts London, WEFT Ltd, the Waste and Resources Action Programme, Charity Retail Association, UK Textile and Fashion Association, Textile Recycling Association, British Retail Consortium, British Fashion Council, Teemill, Fibre Lab, The Little Loop, Matoha, Renee Materials, Local Government Authority, ASDA, HIUT Denim, Been London, Lucy and Yak, Suex, ReLondon

A roundtable to discuss the textile sector's opinions on directions for the Circular Economy Strategy and their input to the Circular Economy Taskforce

Met Amnesty International

To discuss Human Rights across the Indo-Pacific region.

Met National Farmers' Union

Meeting to discuss key issues in the farming sector

Met Food & Drink Federation

Meeting to discuss key issues in the food sector.

Met Country Land & Business Association

Meeting to discuss key issues in the farming sector.

Met Free Russia Foundation

To discuss the work of the Free Russia Foundation.

Met International Education Champion

To discuss the IEC inititaitves

Met Youth Endowment Fund

To discuss Youth Endowment Fund's prevention work in schools to tackle Violence against Women and Girls

Met British Transport Police, Network Rail, First Rail, Transport for Wales, Heathrow, Nexus, Govia Thameslink Railway, Arriva, Transport for Scotland, C2C Railway Limited

Minisiteral Roundtable to discuss Railway Policing

Met British Sign Language Advisory Board

To discuss responses from the deaf communtiy on DWP Pathway to Work Green Paper, Progress on Deafblind communicator guides, Updates on AI and BSL developments, including the upcoming BSL Technology Forum, The advisory board's upcoming Health and Social Care report, RNID/Signhealth report into Healthcare inequalities, and The Accessible Information Standard

Met Form Energy

To discuss electricity storage, planning and future projects

Met Mass Transit Railway Corporation

Handing South Western Railway back to the Department. Mass Transit Railwat Corporation reflected on their 20 year involvement in the UK Railway Sector and were keen to discuss future oppurtunities

Met European Marine Energy Council

To discuss funding options and offshore wind

Met Miami: Caribbean Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency

To discuss exploring regional collaboration and capacity building for sustainable energy across the Caribbean

Met Miami: Dr James Fletcher (CARICOM Climate Envoy)

To discuss coordinating regional climate diplomacy ahead of COP30 and ensuring SIDS voices are effectively represented

Met Miami: Dr James Fletcher (CARICOM Climate Envoy), Ramon Mendez Galain (former Energy Secretary, Uruguay)

To discuss the Renewable Energy Champions Initiative and promote Global South leadership in the energy transition through strategic partnerships and knowledge exchange

Met North East & North Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB), Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board (ICB), West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB), South West London Integrated Care Board (ICB), Cambridge & Peterborough Integrated Care Board (ICB)

Meeting to discuss Integrated Care Board (ICB) reform and the 10 Year Health Plan

Met Energy Ombudsman

To discuss the role of the Energy Ombudsman in consumer protection

Met Action for Children

Discussion about Youth Justice