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Written Question
Adani
Friday 19th May 2023

Asked by: Martin Docherty-Hughes (Scottish National Party - West Dunbartonshire)

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether (a) she, (b) Ministers in her Department and (c) officials in her Department have met (i) Gautam Adani and (ii) representatives of the Adani Group in the last five years.

Answered by Nigel Huddleston - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)

The Secretary of State has not met Gautam Adani. The then Minister for Investment, Lord Grimstone of Boscobel Kt met Gautam Adani at the World Economic Forum in Davos on 25 May 2022.

Officials have met the representatives of Adani Group on a number of occasions over the past five years, including most recently at a meeting in December 2022 between a representative of Adani Defence and the Director of UK Defence and Security Exports.