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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Government's paper Corporate Governance Reform published on 29 August 2017, how many meetings he or ministers of his Department had with representative of trade unions during the preparation of that paper.

The Government is committed to strengthening the worker voice in the boardroom. My Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State had one meeting specifically on the subject of corporate governance with trade union representatives at a roundtable event held in the Department on 6 February 2017. In addition, the Secretary of State and his Ministerial team met regularly with representatives of the trade unions during the preparation of the paper. This included a Trade Unions Congress chaired roundtable on the Industrial Strategy, attended by the heads of the six main unions, on 18 April 2017 where Corporate Governance was discussed.