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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent discussions his Department has had with representatives of the defence and security industries.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has frequent discussions with defence and security companies and also engages regularly with the industry through the Defence Growth Partnership, which is jointly chaired by BEIS and industry. During his recent visit to Japan, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State attended the Special Equipment Exhibition and Conference for Anti-Terrorism (SEECAT), where he met with a number of UK-based Defence and Security companies.

All Ministerial meetings with external organisations are published quarterly on the www.gov.uk website at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/bis-quarterly-publications-april-to-june-2012