Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, to list meetings of his Department attended by (a) staff of Global Council and (b) the European Round Table of Industrialists.

Ministers and officials continue to engage broadly with business across the economy, in the UK and across Europe. This ensures that we can draw on business insight to deliver a pragmatic and principled Brexit.

All ministerial and senior official engagements are listed in the quarterly transparency returns.

There has been no engagement between the Department and staff of Global Counsel.

The former Secretary of State, David Davis, met with a delegation from the European Roundtable of Industrialists on 22 January 2018 and again on the 30 May 2018, this time with the Prime Minister. Official-led engagement supplemented this engagement.