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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what communications there were between Ministers or officials of his Department and Katherine Bennett of Airbus in May and June 2018.

Richard Harrington met Katherine Bennett twice during this period, at meetings with other industry representatives. Details of Ministers’ meetings with external organisations are published quarterly on the Gov.UK website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-for-business-energy-and-industrial-strategy&publication_type=transparency-data

Officials were in regular communication with Katherine Bennett as is usual through May and June in her various roles – as Airbus’s lead UK representative, a member of the Aerospace Growth Partnership (AGP) Board, Chair of the AGP Aerospace Engagement Working Group, and more recently her leading role in the establishment of the Women in Aerospace and Aviation Charter.