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DBT's senior officials' meetings, April to June 2026
Updated 24 September 2026
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| Senior Official's Name | Date | Name of individual or organisation | Purpose of Meeting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amanda Brooks | 2026-04-14 | Heathrow Airport | To discuss Heathrow expansion plans and impact of Middle East conflict. |
| Amanda Brooks | 2026-04-14 | Rolls Royce | To discuss His Majesty's Government and Rolls Royce relationship and ongoing business negotiations. |
| Amanda Brooks | 2026-04-16 | GlaxoSmithKline | To discuss European Roundtable for Industry. |
| Amanda Brooks | 2026-04-27 | MŽdard Schoenmaeckers | To discuss His Majesty's Government and Boehringer Ingelheim relationship. |
| Amanda Brooks | 2026-04-27 | Francesco Ceccato | To discuss His Majesty's Government and Barclays relationship. |
| Amanda Brooks | 2026-04-27 | Department for Business and Trade Secretary of State, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy of Germany, Anglo America, ITM Power, Octopus Electric Vehicles, QinetiQ, Vodafone, Airbus Defence and Space, Bayer, BMW Group, E.ON, Siemens | Discuss how to support UK EU relationship. |
| Amanda Brooks | 2026-04-27 | Department for Business and Trade Secretary of State, , Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy of Germany, Ambassador to Germany, Special Advisor (Department for Business and Trade), Germany Country Director (Department for Business and Trade), Private Secretary (Department for Business and Trade), German Ambassador to the UK, Special Advisor to Minister Reiche, Susanne Szech-Koundouros (individual), Susanne Hegels (individual), David May (individual) | Discuss how to support UK EU relationship. |
| Amanda Brooks | 2026-04-27 | Vodafone, Siemens Energy, MŽdard Schoenmaeckers (individual), BMW, Rolls-Royce, Confederation of British Industry (CBI) | Panel: UK and Germany: Generating growth and innovation through industrial cooperation |
| Amanda Brooks | 2026-04-28 | Rolls Royce | Biscuss His Majesty's Government and Rolls Royce relationship. |
| Amanda Brooks | 2026-04-28 | British Business Bank (BBB) | Discuss BBB reforms and delivery. Joint meeting with DBT Secretary of State. |
| Amanda Brooks | 2026-04-28 | Department for Education, Our Future Health, Goodwall, The Whitehall & Industry Group, University of Oxford, Amazon, Imperial College London, Department for Business and Trade, Cabinet Office, Home Office, National Grid, EY, University of Edinburgh, Department for Work and Pensions, Databricks, Pearson, Atos, Leonardo UK, Scottish Government, KingÕs College London, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, North East Combined Authority, NCFE, No.10, Transport for London, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, His MajestyÕs Treasury, Macquarie, His MajestyÕs Revenue and Customs, Lenovo, System Analysis Program Development, Roche, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Department of Health and Social Care, Enginuity, Adobe, Legal & General, Palo Alto Networks, Sopra Steria, Ministry of Defence | Dinner Conference. CEO-Perm Sec Dinner Series: AI Growth and Investment Opportunities |
| Amanda Brooks | 2026-04-30 | Tesco | Discuss views of current business environment. |
| Amanda Brooks | 2026-05-05 | British Business Bank (BBB) | Discuss His Majesty's Government and BBB relationship. |
| Amanda Brooks | 2026-05-06 | Alfa Laval | Discuss investment plans in the UK, UK-Swedish relationship. |
| Amanda Brooks | 2026-05-06 | Lars HjŠlmered (individual), Charlotte Hansson (individual), Kristina Padron (individual) | Discuss strengthening UK-Sweden relationship for Rolls Royce exports and nuclear energy. |
| Amanda Brooks | 2026-05-06 | AI Bob, eComID, FindMyFactory, Logiplan, Normain, Skugga Technology, Tendium, Kista Science City, Wilgot | Discuss with scale-up companies how to scale into the UK market. |
| Amanda Brooks | 2026-05-11 | Institute of Directors | Discuss relationship with the department. Regular meeting to understand members views. |
| Amanda Brooks | 2026-05-12 | British Business Bank (BBB) | Discuss relationship with the department and their latest reforms and impact. |
| Amanda Brooks | 2026-05-12 | Confederation of British Industry | Discuss relationship with the department as a key stakeholder including discussing feedback from members. |
| Amanda Brooks | 2026-05-13 | British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) | Discuss steel quotas and tariffs. |
| Amanda Brooks | 2026-05-13 | EY | Discuss outcomes of the Kings speech. |
| Amanda Brooks | 2026-05-19 | CISCO | Discuss progress through the Industrial Strategy and where tech adoption can help drive productivity/growth. |
| Amanda Brooks | 2026-05-28 | Innovate UK | Discuss future department funding for InnovateUK. |
| Amanda Brooks | 2026-05-28 | British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) | Discuss supply chains. |
| Amanda Brooks | 2026-06-15 | MakeUK | To discuss MakeUK and department's relationship |
| Amanda Brooks | 2026-06-23 | Deloitte | To understand Deloitte's current priorities. |
| Amanda Brooks | 2026-06-23 | Rolls Royce | To discuss their narrowbody investment proposal. |
| Amanda Brooks | 2026-06-29 | Caterpillar UK | To discuss tariffs and an investment decision in the UK. |
| Amanda Brooks | 2026-06-30 | European Trade Union Confederation | To discuss UK-EU shared values. |
| Amanda Brooks | 2026-06-30 | Institute for Government, European Roundtable for Industry, Instituto de Empresa (IE) University, Business Europe | Panel member: UK in a Changing Europe Panel - What Next for EU-UK Economic Cooperation |
| Amanda Brooks | 2026-07-02 | Lord David Willets | To discuss the work of the Resolution Foundation. |
| Amanda Brooks | 2026-04-27 | Mercedes-Benz | Business reception at Federation of German Industries |
| Caleb Deeks | 2026-04-28 | Trade Association Leaders Group | Trade Association Leaders Group meeting on Make Work Pay |
| Caleb Deeks | 2026-04-29 | The Regulation Forum | Regulatory Chairs Summit |
| Caleb Deeks | 2026-05-06 | Deloitte | Deloitte Academy pre-brief |
| Caleb Deeks | 2026-05-06 | Boston Consulting Group | Regulation Discussion |
| Caleb Deeks | 2026-05-12 | Deloitte | Deloitte Academy: Audit Committee Update |
| Caleb Deeks | 2026-05-13 | Welltower | Discussion on UK investment environment |
| Caleb Deeks | 2026-06-03 | Soumen Das | Discussion on Corporate Governance & The Parker Review |
| Caleb Deeks | 2026-06-15 | Quoted Companies Alliance | Audit & Governance Roundtable |
| Caleb Deeks | 2026-06-22 | Oliver Wyman | Regulation Discussion |
| Caragh McKiernan | 2026-05-15 | Whitehall & Industry Group | To discuss Secondments |
| Caragh McKiernan | 2026-06-12 | Public Digital | To discuss their work reviewing the department's operating model |
| Caragh McKiernan | 2026-06-15 | Public Digital | To discuss their work reviewing the department's operating model |
| Ceri Smith | 2026-04-13 | Canada Pension Plan Investment Board | Meeting to provide an update on their portfolio, investment interests and also to get a temperature check on all the moving parts in government. |
| Ceri Smith | 2026-04-15 | Invest Northern Ireland | Introductions with the heads of Invest Northern Ireland, discussing the dual market proposition, and what they do. |
| Ceri Smith | 2026-04-16 | ComfortDelGro | Presentation of ComfortDelGro as a long term investor in regulated public services, not a transactional operator |
| Ceri Smith | 2026-04-21 | Bio-Industrial Cluster North | Discussing investment in the North East of England. |
| Ceri Smith | 2026-04-22 | Personnel Administration Consulting | Speaking about the partnership between PA Consulting and the Office for Investment. |
| Ceri Smith | 2026-05-19 | Ray Roy, the Group General Counsel & Company Secretary for Centrica | To discuss possible partnership with Centrica. |
| Ceri Smith | 2026-06-17 | Salesforce | To discuss how AI is being deployed across government and public services internationally |
| Ceri Smith | 2026-06-22 | Great British Energy | Discussing possible collaboration, specifically targeting energy industrial investment. |
| Ceri Smith | 2026-06-25 | Shield Artificial Intelligence | Their plans to build out an Autonomy engineering team, grow the consortium, and to scale manufacturing |
| David Bickerton | 2026-04-13 | Jingye, Ashurst | Commercially sensitive discussions |
| David Bickerton | 2026-04-27 | PwC | Discuss how PwC can support the department achieve its missions |
| David Bickerton | 2026-05-05 | Barclays | Commercially sensitive discussions |
| David Bickerton | 2026-05-17 | Ashurst, EY-Parthenon | Commercially sensitive discussions |
| David Bickerton | 2026-05-28 | GFG (Liberty Steel) | Commercially sensitive discussions |
| David Bickerton | 2026-06-11 | Fujitsu | Commercially sensitive discussions |
| David Bickerton | 2026-06-18 | British Steel | Commercially sensitive discussions on a visit to the British Steel site with the Perm Sec |
| Gavin Lambert | 2026-05-01 | Amazon | Discussion on Regulation |
| Gavin Lambert | 2026-05-27 | Q5 Partners | Leadership development |
| Gavin Lambert | 2026-06-03 | Ed Balls & The Kennedy School | Meeting on Artificial Intelligence & Policy Making |
| Gavin Lambert | 2026-06-05 | Trade Association Leaders Group | Trade Association Leaders Group meeting on Make Work Pay |
| Gavin Lambert | 2026-06-24 | Tony Blair Institute | Artificial Intelligence policy tools |
| Graham Zebedee | 2026-04-15 | The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders Ltd | To discuss UK-EU automotive trade. |
| Graham Zebedee | 2026-04-16 | Toyota | To discuss UK-EU automotive trade. |
| Graham Zebedee | 2026-04-16 | BMW | To discuss UK-EU automotive trade. |
| Graham Zebedee | 2026-05-01 | McLaren | To discuss advanced manufacturing priority areas in the industrial strategy |
| Isobel Stephen | Nil Return | Nil Return | Nil Return |
| Jaee Samant | 2026-04-14 | British Council | How recent structural changes in the British Council and DBT impact sector priorities/geographies |
| Jaee Samant | 2026-05-27 | Events Industry Alliance | To discuss how trade shows align with UKÕs growth sectors & trade priorities. |
| Joanna Crellin | 2026-04-09 | NEST Pensions | To discuss and reflect on leadership styles as part of leading through distruption development programme |
| Joanna Crellin | 2026-05-08 | Transform UK | To discuss supporting Small Medium Enterprises growth and exports and to explore potential alignment with department priorities |
| Joanna Crellin | 2026-06-03 | Enterprise Ireland | Understanding mutuality of respective Small Medium Enterprises |
| Katherine Joseph | 2025-05-19 | Whitehall Industry Group | Roundtable on how strategic collaboration with business can help navigate challenges and deliver secure, sustainable growth |
| Katherine Joseph | 2026-05-13 | The Briefing Circle | Roundtable on key developments for the global economy, which covered geopolitics, supply chains, global trade |
| Rebeca Woodward | 2026-06-10 | Public Digital | To discuss their work reviewing the department's operating model |
| Rebeca Woodward | 2026-06-15 | Public Digital | To discuss their work reviewing the department's operating model |
| Rebecca Woodward | 2026-05-26 | PwC | Discussion on PwC's transformation agenda |
| Sam Lister | 2026-04-14 | KBR Inc. | Industrial strategy stakeholder engagement |
| Sam Lister | 2026-04-15 | EY | Industrial strategy stakeholder roundtable |
| Sam Lister | 2026-04-15 | Trade Association Leaders | Industrial strategy stakeholder engagement |
| Sam Lister | 2026-04-21 | EY | Industrial strategy stakeholder engagement |
| Sam Lister | 2026-05-01 | Oxford Science Enterprises | Industrial strategy stakeholder engagement |
| Sam Lister | 2026-05-05 | Cambridge University | Industrial strategy stakeholder engagement |
| Sam Lister | 2026-05-12 | Institute for Government | Industrial strategy stakeholder engagement |
| Sam Lister | 2026-05-12 | Rambert | Trustee meeting |
| Sam Lister | 2026-05-13 | LOW Associates | Industrial strategy stakeholder engagement |
| Sam Lister | 2026-05-13 | The Productivity Institute | Industrial strategy stakeholder engagement |
| Sam Lister | 2026-05-19 | Multiple Mayoral Combined Authorities | Industrial strategy stakeholder roundtable at annual trade show UK's Real Estate Investment and Infrastructure Forum |
| Sam Lister | 2026-05-19 | Scottish Cities Alliance / Scottish City Council Leaders | Industrial strategy stakeholder roundtable at annual trade show UK's Real Estate Investment and Infrastructure Forum |
| Sam Lister | 2026-05-19 | Catapult | Industrial strategy stakeholder roundtable at annual trade show UK's Real Estate Investment and Infrastructure Forum |
| Sam Lister | 2026-05-22 | Whitehall & Industry Group | Governance meeting in role as Trustee |
| Sam Lister | 2026-06-02 | Roche | Industrial strategy stakeholder engagement |
| Sam Lister | 2026-06-02 | Siemens | Industrial strategy stakeholder engagement |
| Sam Lister | 2026-06-02 | University College London Hospital | Industrial strategy stakeholder engagement |
| Sam Lister | 2026-06-09 | EY | Industrial strategy stakeholder engagement |
| Sam Lister | 2026-06-10 | French Chamber of Commerce in Great Britain | Industrial strategy stakeholder engagement |
| Sam Lister | 2026-06-11 | TheCityUK | Industrial strategy stakeholder roundtable |
| Sam Lister | 2026-06-11 | International Business and Diplomatic Exchange | Industrial strategy stakeholder roundtable |
| Sam Lister | 2026-06-12 | Whitehall & Industry Group | Governance meeting in role as Trustee |
| Sam Lister | 2026-06-15 | Institute for Government | Industrial strategy stakeholder engagement |
| Sam Lister | 2026-06-16 | QinetiQ | Industrial strategy stakeholder engagement |
| Sam Lister | 2026-06-17 | Whitehall & Industry Group | Governance meeting in role as Trustee |
| Sam Lister | 2026-06-22 | Loom Strategy | Industrial strategy stakeholder engagement |
| Sam Lister | 2026-06-23 | Confederation of British Industry | Industrial strategy stakeholder roundtable |
| Sam Lister | 2026-06-26 | Whitehall & Industry Group | Governance meeting in role as Trustee |
| Sam Lister | 2026-06-30 | Whitehall & Industry Group | Breakfast roundtable meeting |