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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many meetings (a) Ministers and (b) officials of his Department have had with (i) businesses and (ii) registered charities in each of the last five years.

Records of all Ministerial meetings are published quarterly on the Gov.uk website at the following links:

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-for-business-energy-and-industrial-strategy&publication_type=transparency-data

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/bis-quarterly-publications-april-to-june-2012

Department for Energy and Climate Change

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ministers-meeting-with-external-organisations

Information about meetings between officials, businesses and charities are not centrally held and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.