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BIS Cabinet members meetings with proprietors, editors and senior media executives: 11 May 2010 to 15 July 2011

Updated 22 November 2012
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Minister Date Name of External Organisation Purpose of meeting
Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills and President of the Board of Trade, Rt Hon Vincent Cable MP June, 2010 Financial Times Midsummer Party Social
Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills and President of the Board of Trade, Rt Hon Vincent Cable MP June, 2010 ITV Parliamentary Summer Reception Social
Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills and President of the Board of Trade, Rt Hon Vincent Cable MP July, 2010 Alan Rusbridger (The Guardian) General discussion over lunch
Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills and President of the Board of Trade, Rt Hon Vincent Cable MP July, 2010 Regional Broadcasters and Lobby Reception (No10)
Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills and President of the Board of Trade, Rt Hon Vincent Cable MP September, 2010 Tony Gallagher, Murdoch Maclennan, Ian MacGregor (The Telegraph) Party conference – general discussion over dinner
Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills and President of the Board of Trade, Rt Hon Vincent Cable MP December, 2010 James Harding (The Times) General discussion
Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills and President of the Board of Trade, Rt Hon Vincent Cable MP March, 2011 BBC News Reception Liberal Democrat Spring Conference
Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills and President of the Board of Trade, Rt Hon Vincent Cable MP April, 2011 Paul Dacre (Daily Mail) Dinner
Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills and President of the Board of Trade, Rt Hon Vincent Cable MP April, 2011 Sunday Times Business Lunch General discussion
Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills and President of the Board of Trade, Rt Hon Vincent Cable MP May, 2011 New Statesman’s Lunch, Jason Cowley Social
Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills and President of the Board of Trade, Rt Hon Vincent Cable MP June, 2011 Financial Times Summer Party Social
Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills and President of the Board of Trade, Rt Hon Vincent Cable MP July, 2011 Alan Rusbridger (The Guardian) General discussion over lunch
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This list sets out the Secretary of State’s meetings with senior media executives for the period May 2010-July 2011. This includes all meetings with proprietors, senior executives and editors of media organisations for both newspapers and broadcast media. It does not include those meetings with journalists that ended up in interviews that appeared in the public domain, either in newspapers and magazines. It may also exclude some larger social events at which senior media executives may have been present. Not set Not set Not set
This is the fullest possible list assembled from the Secretary of State’s Parliamentary diary, their departmental diary, personal diary and memory. Every effort has been taken to ensure that this is as accurate as possible but the nature of such an extensive exercise means something may have inadvertently got missed. Not set Not set Not set