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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what meetings Ministers or officials of his Department had with representatives of (a) Airbus and (b) BMW at which company announcements relating to the UK leaving the EU were discussed in May and June 2018.

There were no Ministerial meetings with BMW during May or June. I visited Airbus’ Filton facility with my hon. Friend the Member for Filton and Bradley Stoke on 21 June, but announcements relating to the UK leaving the EU were not discussed.

Although officials met regularly with Airbus and BMW in the normal course of business during May and June, neither company discussed at these meetings their announcements relating to EU Exit ahead of making them. Their announcements were subsequently discussed in meetings between officials and the companies.