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Written Question
Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Pressure Groups
Wednesday 21st October 2015

Asked by: Chris Stephens (Scottish National Party - Glasgow South West)

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what meetings his Department has had with representatives of the (a) Taxpayers' Alliance, (b) Confederation of British Industry, (c) Institute of Economic Affairs, (d) Adam Smith Institute, (e) Freedom Association, (f) Politics and Economics Research Trust and (g) Midlands Industrial Council in the last 12 calendar months.

Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot

Details of Ministers' andPermanentSecretaries meetings with external organisations are published up to 31March 2015 and can be accessed on Gov.uk at:https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ministers-transparency-publications

Further publications of Ministerial and Permanent Secretaries meetings will be published in due course.


Written Question
Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Trade Unions
Thursday 1st October 2015

Asked by: Chris Stephens (Scottish National Party - Glasgow South West)

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what meetings his Department has had with trades unions in the last 12 months.

Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot

This response covers the period 1 August 2014 – 14 July 2015. A list of the meeting dates are provided below:

· 28 August 2014

· 4 September 2014

· 11 September 2014

· 2 October 2014

· 27 October 2014

· 27 November 2014

· 11 December 2014

· 7 January 2015

· 22 January 2015

· 19 February 2015

· 19 March 2015

· 16 April 2015

· 13 May 2015

· 11 June 2015

· 1 July 2015

· 7 July 2015

· 9 July 2015