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Calendar
Tuesday 10th March 2026 2 p.m. Business and Trade Committee - Private Meeting View calendar - Add to calendar
Monday 9th March 2026 3:45 p.m. Business and Trade Committee - Oral evidence Subject: UK trade with the US, India and EU At 4:00pm: Oral evidence Chris Bryant MP - Minister for Trade at Department for Business and Trade Amanda Brooks CBE - Director General, Trade Policy, Implementation and Negotiations at Department for Business and Trade Kate Joseph - Director General, Economic Security and Trade Relations at Department for Business and Trade View calendar - Add to calendar
Tuesday 24th March 2026 2 p.m. Business and Trade Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Royal Mail At 2:30pm: Oral evidence Dave Ward - General Secretary at Communication Workers Union Martin Walsh - Deputy General Secretary (Postal) at Communication Workers Union At 3:10pm: Oral evidence Daniel Křetínský - Chairman at EP Holding Alistair Cochrane - Chief Executive Officer at Royal Mail Ricky McAulay - UK Operations Director at Royal Mail At 3:50pm: Oral evidence Natalie Black - Group Director for Infrastructure and Connectivity at Ofcom Fergal Farragher - Director, Infrastructure and Connectivity at Ofcom Ian Strawhorne - Director, Enforcement at Ofcom View calendar - Add to calendar

Select Committee Documents
Monday 9th March 2026 Correspondence - Letter from the Minister of State for Trade relating to US tariffs and the US Supreme Court ruling, 6 March 2026 Business and Trade Committee
Tuesday 10th March 2026 Correspondence - Letter from Royal Mail relating to postal deliveries and the quality of service, 2 March 2026 Business and Trade Committee
Monday 9th March 2026 Oral Evidence - Department for Business and Trade, Department for Business and Trade, and Department for Business and Trade UK trade with the US, India and EU - Business and Trade Committee
Wednesday 11th March 2026 Correspondence - Letter from the Post Office relating to the Government response to the Future of the Post Office Green Paper, 25 February 2026 Business and Trade Committee
Wednesday 11th March 2026 Correspondence - Letter from National Grid relating to the Committee's evidence session on 13 January on EU trade, 23 January 2026 Business and Trade Committee
Wednesday 11th March 2026 Correspondence - Letter from the Minister for Employment Rights and Consumer Protection relating to further February consultation package for the Employment Rights Act, 26 February 2026 Business and Trade Committee
Wednesday 11th March 2026 Correspondence - Letter from the Minister for Employment Rights and Consumer Protection relating to the Government response to the unpaid internships call for evidence, 27 February 2026 Business and Trade Committee
Wednesday 11th March 2026 Correspondence - Letter from the Minister for Small Business and Economic Transformation relating to UK Sustainability Reporting Standards, 24 February 2026 Business and Trade Committee
Wednesday 11th March 2026 Correspondence - Letter from the Minister of State for Trade relating to Cumulation Provisions with Trade Partners that are part of the PEM Convention, 27 February 2026 Business and Trade Committee
Wednesday 11th March 2026 Correspondence - Letter from the Chair of the Competition and Markets Authority relating to further information requested at his pre-appointment hearing, 4 March 2026 Business and Trade Committee
Wednesday 11th March 2026 Correspondence - Letter from Prologis relating to the Committee's evidence session on 10 February on US trade, 27 February 2026 Business and Trade Committee
Wednesday 11th March 2026 Correspondence - Letter from the Secretary of State and the Minister for the Constitution and EU relations relating to UK-EU Competition Cooperation Agreement, 3 March 2026 Business and Trade Committee
Wednesday 11th March 2026 Correspondence - Letter to the Minister for Industry relating to the UK steel industry, 2 March 2026 Business and Trade Committee
Wednesday 11th March 2026 Correspondence - Letter from Amentum relating to the UK-US Technology Prosperity Deal, 16 February 2026 Business and Trade Committee
Wednesday 11th March 2026 Correspondence - Letter from Howe+Co relating to the Ministry of Justice's response to questions posed by the Committee on the Post Office Horizon scandal, 24 February 2026 Business and Trade Committee
Friday 13th March 2026 Report - 16th Report - Post Office Horizon scandal: Justice for sub-postmasters Business and Trade Committee
Monday 16th March 2026 Correspondence - Letter to Companies House relating to a fault with its online filing service, 16 March 2026 Business and Trade Committee

Select Committee Inquiry
5 Mar 2026 China and the UK economy Business and Trade Committee (Select) Submit Evidence (by 10 Apr 2026) In this inquiry, the Business and Trade Committee will scrutinise the Government’s approach to economic engagement with China. In particular, it will assess the potential net benefits to the UK of deeper economic integration with China, and how these benefits compare to the risks that closer ties with China may bring. The Committee will aim to clarify the precise nature of the economic relationship between the UK and China, setting out the risks involved and determining the relative level of risk for different areas of economic engagement. It will assess the way Government weighs trade-offs and makes decisions, the effectiveness of the its existing regulatory toolkit and implementation. Finally, it will explore how the UK’s allies and partners are mitigating these risks, the lessons that the UK could draw, and the ways in which the UK and its allies might strengthen co-operation to address the economic security challenges posed by China.
10 Mar 2026 Artificial Intelligence, business and the future of the workforce Business and Trade Committee (Select) Not accepting submissions The Business and Trade Committee is launching an inquiry into Artificial Intelligence (AI) in order to better understand the opportunities and costs for businesses and the workforce, and to make recommendations on Government priorities. AI has advanced rapidly in recent years, supported by major improvements in computing power, data availability and the emergence of large language models (LLMs). This has enabled AI to perform an expanding range of tasks. AI adoption has increased, but uptake remains uneven. As adoption accelerates, AI is expected to have significant impacts on UK business and the UK workforce, reshaping work. It will prove a growth industry in itself, enhance productivity, disrupt existing industries and business models, cost jobs, and create jobs. The Government’s AI Opportunities Action Plan includes a twentyfold expansion of public AI hardware by 2030 and seeks to leverage private investment through initiatives such as the US–UK Tech Prosperity Deal (with £30 billion committed by major technology firms).

Select Committee Inquiry

5 Mar 2026
China and the UK economy
Business and Trade Committee (Select)

Submit Evidence (by 10 Apr 2026)

In this inquiry, the Business and Trade Committee will scrutinise the Government’s approach to economic engagement with China. In particular, it will assess the potential net benefits to the UK of deeper economic integration with China, and how these benefits compare to the risks that closer ties with China may bring.

The Committee will aim to clarify the precise nature of the economic relationship between the UK and China, setting out the risks involved and determining the relative level of risk for different areas of economic engagement. It will assess the way Government weighs trade-offs and makes decisions, the effectiveness of the its existing regulatory toolkit and implementation. Finally, it will explore how the UK’s allies and partners are mitigating these risks, the lessons that the UK could draw, and the ways in which the UK and its allies might strengthen co-operation to address the economic security challenges posed by China.

10 Mar 2026
Artificial Intelligence, business and the future of the workforce
Business and Trade Committee (Select)
Not accepting submissions

The Business and Trade Committee is launching an inquiry into Artificial Intelligence (AI) in order to better understand the opportunities and costs for businesses and the workforce, and to make recommendations on Government priorities.

AI has advanced rapidly in recent years, supported by major improvements in computing power, data availability and the emergence of large language models (LLMs). This has enabled AI to perform an expanding range of tasks.

AI adoption has increased, but uptake remains uneven. As adoption accelerates, AI is expected to have significant impacts on UK business and the UK workforce, reshaping work. It will prove a growth industry in itself, enhance productivity, disrupt existing industries and business models, cost jobs, and create jobs.

The Government’s AI Opportunities Action Plan includes a twentyfold expansion of public AI hardware by 2030 and seeks to leverage private investment through initiatives such as the US–UK Tech Prosperity Deal (with £30 billion committed by major technology firms).

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy mentioned

Select Committee Documents
Wednesday 4th March 2026 Oral Evidence - Lancaster University Management School, ChargeUK, Brook Green Supply, Transport East, and Energy Networks Association Supercharging the EV transition - Transport Committee Found: A report by BEIS—as it was—and Ofgem a few years ago estimated that to deliver the clean growth, decarbonisation
Wednesday 4th March 2026 Report - 8th Report - The Seventh Carbon Budget Environmental Audit Committee Found: , 4 February 2025 10 Friends of the Earth v BEIS [2022] EWHC 1841; Friends of the Earth v Secretary of

Written Answers

Department for Business and Trade: Apprentices
Asked by: Jack Rankin (Conservative - Windsor)
Thursday 19th March 2026

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

Answered by Kate Dearden - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)

On 1st July 2023 due to a Machinery of Government Change, the Department of International Trade (DIT) became the Department for Business and Trade (DBT), alongside parts of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). We therefore only hold information from DBT from 1st July 2023.

Information included for 2022 only captures former DIT apprenticeship starts. Information for 2023 includes starts from January to June for former DIT. Data provided is sourced from internal-to-DBT management information trackers.

Response relates to apprentices recruited/onboarded onto Apprenticeship Programmes. Years here are taken to mean calendar years, not financial years.

Year	Apprenticeship Starts on Programme
2022 (DIT Only)	88
2023	76
2024	102
2025	119

Parliamentary Research
International recruitment in the NHS workforce - CBP-10568 Mar. 10 2026 Found: registration routes.”43 40 GDC, International registration reforms (Access 13 February 2024) 41 BEIS

National Audit Office
Mar. 13 2026 Report: DSIT's investment in research infrastructure (PDF) Found: DSIT and its predecessor department, the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS

Department Publications - Statistics
Thursday 19th March 2026 Department for Energy Security & Net Zero Source Page: Smart meters in Great Britain, quarterly update December 2025 Document: (Excel) Found: included with large suppliers from Q4 202018npower merged with E.ON in 2019, with combined reporting to BEIS
Thursday 19th March 2026 Department for Energy Security & Net Zero Source Page: Smart meters in Great Britain, quarterly update December 2025 Document: (ODS) Found: included with large suppliers from Q4 2020 18 npower merged with E.ON in 2019, with combined reporting to BEIS
Wednesday 11th March 2026 Department for Energy Security & Net Zero Source Page: Home decarbonisation: the role of the residential sales and lettings sector Document: (PDF) Found: profile-of-households-and-dwellings 3 HM Government, Heat and Buildings Strategy, October 2021, p23 4 DESNZ and BEIS
Wednesday 11th March 2026 Department for Energy Security & Net Zero Source Page: Understanding mixed tenure in English social housing Document: (PDF) Found: “BEIS [now DESNZ] are going out of their way, they don't want you to fully contribute so they are giving
Wednesday 11th March 2026 Department for Energy Security & Net Zero Source Page: Understanding mixed tenure in English social housing Document: (PDF) Found: “BEIS [now DESNZ] are going out of their way, they don't want you to fully contribute so they are giving
Wednesday 11th March 2026 Department for Energy Security & Net Zero Source Page: Home energy advice services in England: hard-to-reach and digitally excluded consumers Document: (PDF) Found: have been commissioned by UK Government’s Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS
Wednesday 11th March 2026 Department for Energy Security & Net Zero Source Page: Home energy information, advice and guidance Document: (PDF) Found: Experts were identified through the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Energy
Wednesday 11th March 2026 Department for Science, Innovation & Technology Source Page: Evaluation of the NI Cyber AI Hub programme Document: (PDF) Found: levels and productivity. 1 Regional gross value added (balanced), ONS 2025 2 UK Innovation Survey, BEIS
Thursday 5th March 2026 Ministry of Justice Source Page: Civil justice statistics quarterly: October to December 2025 Document: (ODS) Found: 0.333333333333333 0 0 10 1 0.1 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 Dept. for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy7 BEIS
Thursday 5th March 2026 Ministry of Justice Source Page: Civil justice statistics quarterly: October to December 2025 Document: (ODS) Found: Table_2.5 7 In February 2023 the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Department

Department Publications - Policy paper
Wednesday 18th March 2026 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Source Page: EM on EU Regulation 2026/405 on Detergents and Surfactants Document: (PDF) Found: products was scrutinised as proposal 15950/17, COM(17)1795 with the then Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Department Publications - News and Communications
Friday 13th March 2026 HM Treasury Source Page: Chancellor and Energy Secretary meet with fuel bosses in No11 as government order crackdown on pump prices Document: Fuel Finder Open Data Scheme Final Impact Assessment (PDF) Found: in 2022, the Secretary of State for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Stra tegy (BEIS

Non-Departmental Publications - Guidance and Regulation
Mar. 20 2026 Planning Inspectorate Source Page: Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects - Advice on working with public bodies in the infrastructure planning process - Annex D: Environment Agency Document: Living better with a changing climate (PDF) Guidance and Regulation Found: actions under theme 5: Designing a low carbon future Action ID Action Intended outcome 5.1 Support BEIS
Mar. 05 2026 National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority Source Page: Whole Life Carbon Management Document: (PDF) Guidance and Regulation Found: amended 2019 (legislation.gov.uk) 3 HM Treasury, Department for Business, innovation and Skills (later BEIS

Non-Departmental Publications - Guidance and Regulation

Mar. 20 2026
Planning Inspectorate

Source Page: Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects - Advice on working with public bodies in the infrastructure planning process - Annex D: Environment Agency
Document: Living better with a changing climate (PDF)
Guidance and Regulation

Found: actions under theme 5: Designing a low carbon future Action ID Action Intended outcome 5.1 Support BEIS

Mar. 05 2026
National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority

Source Page: Whole Life Carbon Management
Document: (PDF)
Guidance and Regulation

Found: amended 2019 (legislation.gov.uk) 3 HM Treasury, Department for Business, innovation and Skills (later BEIS

Non-Departmental Publications - News and Communications
Mar. 19 2026 Marine Management Organisation Source Page: East Anglia ONE North Offshore Windfarm - Variation 1 Document: (PDF) News and Communications Found: Variation 1 (Schedules 13 and 14) In April 2022 the Secretary of State for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Mar. 19 2026 Marine Management Organisation Source Page: East Anglia ONE North Offshore Windfarm - Variation 1 Document: East Anglia ONE North Offshore Windfarm - Variation 1 (webpage) News and Communications Found: In April 2022 the Secretary of State for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Mar. 19 2026 Marine Management Organisation Source Page: East Anglia TWO Offshore Windfarm - Variation 1 Document: (PDF) News and Communications Found: Variation 1 (Schedules 13 and 14) In April 2022 the Secretary of State for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Mar. 19 2026 Marine Management Organisation Source Page: East Anglia TWO Offshore Windfarm - Variation 1 Document: East Anglia TWO Offshore Windfarm - Variation 1 (webpage) News and Communications Found: In April 2022 the Secretary of State for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Mar. 18 2026 Competition and Markets Authority Source Page: Google's general search and search advertising services Document: User Choice conduct requirement (PDF, 1.6MB) (PDF) News and Communications Found: consumer’s time, we use the average UK hourly wage (in line with approaches taken by the FCA and BEIS
Mar. 18 2026 Competition and Markets Authority Source Page: Google's general search and search advertising services Document: Data Portability conduct requirement (PDF, 486KB) (PDF) News and Communications Found: of time, for which we use the average UK hourly wage (in line with approaches taken by the FCA and BEIS
Mar. 06 2026 Competition and Markets Authority Source Page: Energy licence modification appeals 2026 Document: Northern Gas Networks notice of appeal (PDF, 985KB) (PDF) News and Communications Found: of Good Regulation). 62 BIS, Principles for Economic Regulation (April 2011) (NGNNOA1_057) and BEIS

Non-Departmental Publications - Statistics
Mar. 05 2026 Office for Product Safety and Standards Source Page: Estimating detriment from unsafe and non-compliant products Document: (PDF) Statistics Found: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/product-safety-database-unsafe-products 24 The PAT survey available here: BEIS

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy mentioned in Scottish results

Scottish Government Publications
Monday 9th March 2026 Energy and Climate Change Directorate Source Page: Windfall tax and energy profits levy correspondence: EIR release Document: EIR 202600500687 - Information released - Annex (PDF) Found: Attachment 1 of 4 from doc.42 [REDACTED] – NOT IN SCOPE 20 CORRESPONDENCE WITH BEIS SoS 14

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy mentioned in Welsh results

Welsh Committee Publications
PDF - Industrial Communities Alliance Inquiry: Inward investment Found: Department for Business, Enterprise and Industrial Strategy (2022) Regional Growth Fund Evaluation, BEIS

Welsh Government Publications
Wednesday 18th March 2026 Source Page: Final evaluation of Sêr Cymru II Document: Report (PDF) Found: ......................................................................... 191 7 Glossary BEIS