Ministers' Meetings

Met Siemens plc

To discuss Siemens’ priorities in industrial software and AI, alongside UK innovation and investment

Met Steve Chalke (Oasis uk founder)

Discuss the Government's legislative programme

Name of Individual(s) or Organisation: Construction Skills Mission Board | Ministerial updates on the construction skills package delivered to the Board meeting

Name of Individual(s) or Organisation: Doctors Assoiation UK | Met to discuss fit note reform.

Met Toyota

To discuss challenges in the UK automotive manufacturing & commercial environment

Met Greater London Authority

To discuss Greater London Authority's Local Remediation Acceleration Plan

Met Canning House Business Roundtable

To engage with UK-based businesses and business representative organisations on trade and investment between the UK and Latin America, organised and hosted by the Latin America-focused think tank Canning House.

Met ZeroAvia

Discussed ZeroAvia's business ambitions and footprint in the UK.

Met Jim Simon (CEO of RJC)

Meeting on HMPPS internal review into Re:hub

Met Pharmaceutical companies and trade associations

Oversight Committee to discuss the UK Life Sciences Sector and the UK-US Pharmaceuticals Arrangement

Met Youth Endowment Fund

To discuss Youth Endowment Fund's latest research and future strategy, with a focus on how it can support DfE's violence reduction work

Met Unite

To discuss the UK construction sectors and challenges for its workforce

Met ServiceNow

To discuss AI adoption & ServiceNow's public procurement ambitions

Met National Farmers' Union

To discuss issues facing the horticultural sector

Met IOM3

To discuss strengthening the domestic engineering skills pipeline

Name of Individual(s) or Organisation: Trade Union Congress | Keynote speech on the pension policy landscape at the Trade Union Congress Pensions Conference.

Met Grenfell Residents Leadership Ministerial Forum

To discuss issues impacting Residents in the Grenfell Community

Met Construction Skills Mission Board

Ministerial updates on the construction skills package delivered to the Board meeting

Met Boeing

Discussed Boeing's investments and business plans in the UK

Met Trip.com

To discuss Trip.com’s scale-up and expansion of its UK operations as a strategic European hub

Met Pippa Crerar, Political Editor, The Guardian

To discuss DESNZ policy

Met AstraZeneca, GSK, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Sanofi, UCB

Video meeting to discuss UK competitiveness and investment opportunities in the pharmaceutical and life sciences sectors

Met Leanne Lucas, Let's Be Blunt

Meeting to discuss round-tipped knives

Name of Individual(s) or Organisation: Swansea Council, Y Storfa, Careers Wales, Citizen's Advice, WG Communities for Work | Visit to see work to support people into work, meeting providers and service users

Met Gartner

To discuss technology and innovation in government.

Met UNISON

To discuss workforce issues

Name of Individual(s) or Organisation: GROW Cymru | Visit to mark Internation Women's Day, to see the work GROW Cymru do to support women and families in Wales

Met Stoke-on-Trent City Council

To discuss Children's Social Care Reforms

Met North Sea Transition Authority

To discuss impacts of Middle East conflict

Met New Homes Quality Board

To discuss new homes redress arrangements.

Met Loveholidays

To discuss Love Holidays’ experience of the UK business and regulatory environment and considerations around future growth and listing decisions

Met Finance Transition Centre

Engagement on strengthening UK leadership in sustainable finance

Met British Airways

To discuss repatriation of British nationals from the Middle East

Met British dental association

To engage with stakeholders and here views from the sector about improving dentistry.

Met Transport for All, Thomas Pocklington Trust, Wheelchair Alliance, Little People UK, Living Streets, PACTS, Wheels for Wellbeing, Whizz Kidz, Surewise Insurance, Disability Rights UK, Professor Duncan Guest, Head of Psychology at Nottingham Trent University

Hosted a Roundtable with accessibility & disability charity stakeholders as part of the Powered Mobility Device Consultation.

Met AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Bristol Myers Squibb, Sanofi, Lilly, UCB

To discuss medicines pricing

Met Edge Foundation

To discuss support of SME apprenticeships and skills

Met Fuels Industry UK

To discuss supply challenges facing refineries and how HMG could support industry

Met Transition Finance Council

To discuss transition finance plans

Met Visit to Wiltshire Police for morning raid

County Lines Intensification Week

Met Glasgow Science Centre, W5 Experience, We The Curious, ASDC, CAT

To discuss science and discovery centres

Met Anthropic

To discuss AI opportunities in the UK

Met Nursing & Midwifery Council

To discuss nursing and midwifery workforce issues

Met AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Bristol Myers Squibb, Sanofi, Lilly, UCB

To discuss medicines pricing

Met Residential Freehold Association, Wallace, Long Harbour, Consensus Business Group, E&J Estates, Aviva, Railpen, Barratt Redrow, Crest Nicholson, Bellway, Taylor Wimpey, Vistry, Telford, Building Safety Regulator, Home Builders' Federation

To discuss the remediation of unsafe buildings

Met Chief Nurses from various NHS Trusts

Chief Nurses Event where SofS spoke

Met Multiple Non-Governmental Organisations and Asylum Support Engagement Group Members 1) British Red Cross 2) Welsh Refugee Council 3) Refugee Migrant Children's Consortium 4) Southwark Law Centre 5) International Organization for Migration 6) Migrant Help 7) Scottish Refugee Council 8) Law Centre Northern Ireland 9) Medical Justice 10) Refugee Council 11) Detention Action 12) Asylum Matters 13) Barnardo's 14) Law Society 15) Freedom from Torture 16) Rainbow Migration 17) Medical Justice 18) United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 19) Amnesty Internation United Kingdom 20) Immigration Law Practitioner's Association

To engage with Asylum Non-Governmental Organizations and discuss Asylum Reforms

Name of Individual(s) or Organisation: Rethink Mental Illness | Met to discuss policy to support people with mental health conditions into employment.

Name of Individual(s) or Organisation: Association of Colleges, Sixth Form Colleges Association, Confederation of Schools Trusts, Universities UK | Qualification Reform Roundtable

Name of Individual(s) or Organisation: Centre for Young Lives, Prudence Trust, Future Minds, Young Minds, Centre for Mental health, Mind, Children and Young People's Mental Health Coalition, Mental Health Leadership group, No Limits, People's Health Trust, King's Trust. | Roundtable to discuss the interaction between mental health and entering employment.