Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, on how many and which occasions he has had communications with Tata Group plc in the last six months.

Tata Group plc is a Strategic Relationship-Managed company and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) is the Contact Minister. He has had regular meetings with the company, including during the Prime Minister of India’s visit to the UK in November 2015. BIS Ministers have held discussions and corresponded with Tata Group plc on a regular basis on issues of importance to the company’s investments in the UK. Most recently my right hon. Friend visited Mumbai on 6 April and again on 20 April to progress the sale of Tata Steel’s UK assets with Cyrus Mistry, Tata Group Chairman.