Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, if he will list the civil servants and the meetings they attended in Brussels on 19 June 2017 for the first round of Article 50 negotiations.

The following senior civil servants, at grades SCS2 and above, took part in the first round of the negotiations on 19 June 2017.

• Oliver Robbins, DExEU

• Sir Tim Barrow, UKRep

• Glyn Williams, Home Office

• Alex Ellis, DExEU

• Mark Bowman, HMT

• Simon Case, UKRep

• Jonathan Black, HMT

• Chris Jones, DExEU

• Catherine Webb, DExEU

• Catherine Adams, DExEU

• Daniel Denman, DExEU

• Matt Baugh, DExEU

• Ian Walsh, DWP

The agenda for the day, setting out the meetings attended by officials, can be found here: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/publications/agenda-19-june-meeting-between-eu-and-uk-article-50-negotiations_en. See below:

Opening of the negotiations between the EU and the UK on the withdrawal of the UK from the European Union by Michel Barnier, the European Commission's Chief Negotiator, and David Davis, UK Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union

 11.00 : Opening session (Michel Barnier and Secretary of State David Davis) plus officials

 12.30 : Working lunch between Michel Barnier and Secretary of State David Davis

 14.00 – 16.30 : Working groups

 16.30 : Meeting of coordinators (Sabine Weyand, European Commission's Deputy Chief Negotiator and Olly Robbins, Permanent Secretary, UK Department for Exiting the EU)

 17.30 : Closing session (Michel Barnier and Secretary of State David Davis)

 18:30 (approx): Joint press conference by Michel Barnier and Secretary of State David Davis, BERL press room