DCMS Ministerial hospitality, overseas travel and meetings with outside interest groups,
 newspapers and other media proprietors, editors and senior executives

1 April - 30 June 2012

  

  

DEPARTMENT FOR CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT

QUARTERLY INFORMATION 

GIFTS GIVEN OVER £140

Secretary of State, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP 	
Date gift given	To  	Gift	Value  	
Nil				
Minister for Sport & the Olympics, Hugh Robertson MP	
Date gift given	To  	Gift	Value  	
Nil				
Minister for Culture, Communications & Creative Industries, Ed Vaizey MP (DCMS)	
Date gift given	To  	Gift	Value  	
Nil				
Minister for Tourism and Heritage, John Penrose MP 	
Date gift given	To  	Gift	Value  	
Nil				

GIFTS RECEIVED OVER £140 

Secretary of State, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP	
Date gift received	From  	Gift	Value 	Outcome  	
Nil					
Minister for Sport & the Olympics, Hugh Robertson MP 	
Date gift received	From  	Gift	Value 	Outcome  	
Nil					
Minister for Culture, Communications & Creative Industries, Ed Vaizey MP (DCMS)	
Date gift received	From  	Gift	Value 	Outcome  	
Nil					
Minister for Tourism and Heritage, John Penrose MP	
Date gift received	From  	Gift	Value 	Outcome  	
Nil					
 
HOSPITALITY

Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP, Secretary of State  	
Date	Name of Organisation 	Type of Hospitality Received  (include an asterisk against the entry if accompanied by spouse/partner or other family member or friend) *	
15 April 12 	Football Association	Tickets*	
1 May 012	Broadband Stakeholder Group Advisory Council	Dinner	
5 May 012	Football Association	Tickets* 	
10 May 012	Deloittes	Lunch	
11 May 12	BOA	Ball ticket	
15 May 12	BBC 	Lunch	
16 May 12	Society of Merchant Traders	Dinner (speaking)	
23 May 12	Royal Opera House 	Tickets and dinner*	
29 May 12	Hawkpoint	Dinner	
04 June 12	BBC 	Concert Tickets*	
12 Jun 012	The Independent  - Chris Blackhurst	Lunch	
21 June 12	LOCOG	Concert Ticket	
27 Jun 012	London Philharmonic Gala	Tickets*	
29 Jun 012	MCC	Tickets* 	
HUGH ROBERTSON MP, Minister for Sport and the Olympics	
Date	Name of Organisation 	Type of Hospitality Received  	
12 Apr 012	SportScotland 	Lunch	
23 Apr 012	The FA Group	Lunch	
26 Apr 012	MCC	Dinner	
2 May 012	Rugby League	Drinks Reception	
2 May 012	Sports Industry Awards	Reception/Dinner	
6 May 012	School Games Partners	Dinner	
8 May 012	London Press Club	Lunch & Prize giving	
9 May 012	Mayor of Ancient Olympia	Dinner	
11 May 012	Team GB	Dinner	
15 May 012	Brazilian Chamber of Commerce	Gala Dinner	
20 May 012	Chelsea FC	Chartered return flight	
20 May 012	UEFA	Ticket	
21 May 012	MOD and Mayor of Dover	‘Beating the Retreat’ and Diamond Jubilee Reception 	
13 Jun 012	Royal Yachting Association	Sail for Gold Ball
	
John Penrose MP, Minister for Tourism & Heritage 	
Date	Name of Organisation 	Type of Hospitality Received  	
24 Apr 012	Royal Overseas League	Lunch	
24 Apr 012	CCT	Reception	
8 May 012	M&C Directors Club	Dinner	
12 Jun 012	Business in Sport and Leisure Ltd	Lunch	
14 Jun 012	Nailcote Hall Hotel	Lunch	
19 Jun 012	Gala Coral	Royal Ascot, Lunch	
20 Jun 012	British Hospitality Association	Royal Ascot	
26 Jun 012	Hilton Worldwide	Summer Reception	
Ed Vaizey MP, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries (DCMS)	
Date	Name of Organisation 	Type of Hospitality Received  (include an asterisk against the entry if accompanied by spouse/partner or other family member or friend)	
2 Apr 012	Tate Modern	Private view & dinner	
15 Apr 012	Royal Opera House	Olivier Awards & reception*	
16 Apr 012	Sorrell Foundation	Lunch	
16 Apr 012	Jermyn Street Theatre	Tickets *	
17 Apr 012	China-Britain Business Council	Dinner	
24 Apr 012	Digital Theatre	Tickets 	
25 Apr 012	Omnicorn Media Group 	Dinner	
26 Apr 012	Sony	Ticket	
2 May 012	Virgin	Lunch	
4 May 012	Open Studios, W. Berks & N.Hampshire	Lunch	
9 May 012	Financial Times	Lunch	
14 May 012	Sony	Reception/Dinner 	
16 May 012	Financial Times	Lunch	
17 May 012	PRS for Music	Lunch/Drinks reception	
20 May 012	MPAA	Reception	
20 May 012	Pinewood	Reception	
20 May 012	SALT	Reception	
20 May 012	BFI	Reception/dinner	
22 May 012	Sunday TImes	Lunch	
23 May 012	Cutty Sark	Dinner	
24 May 012	Leicester Square Odeon	Film Premiere	
25 May 012	Turner Contemporary	Preview *	
30 May 012	The Stage	Lunch	
1 Jun 012	Edinburgh Fringe Festival Society	Reception	
03 Jun 012	Somerset House	Jubilee reception * 	
04 Jun 012	BBC	Diamond Jubilee concert *	
14 Jun 012	National Gallery	Reception/Dinner *	
18 Jun 012	Four Colman Getty	Lunch	
18 Jun 012	Hackney Empire	Chairman’s Fundraising Reception	
19 Jun 012	UK City of Culture 2013	Reception	
19 Jun 012	BP Portrait Awards	Award Ceremony and Dinner *	
20 Jun 012	Looted Art Commission	Lunch	
20 Jun 012	Founders Forum	Lunch	
20 Jun 012	UK Music	Reception	
21 Jun 012	Kelvingrove Art Gallery	Lunch	
21 Jun 012	London 2012 Festival	Opening concert	
25 Jun 012	Cardew Group	Breakfast	
26 Jun 012	Everything Everywhere	Lunch	
27 Jun 012	Independent	Lunch	
28 Jun 012	Heritage of London Trust	Lunch	
28 Jun 012	British Library	Reception 	

OVERSEAS TRAVEL

Secretary of State, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP
	
Date(s) of trip	Destination  	Purpose of trip	‘No 32 (The Royal) Squadron’ or ‘other RAF’ or ‘Charter’ or ‘Eurostar’  	Number of officials accompanying Minister, where non-scheduled travel is used   	Total cost including travel, and accommodation of Minister only
*indicates if accompanied by spouse/partner or other family member or friend	
9-12 April	Tokyo and Shanghai	Bilateral and economic visits, GREAT event 	Chartered	1	£1451
	
Minister for Sport and the Olympics – Hugh Robertson	
15-18  Apr	Moscow – Russia	2nd World Olympic Sport Convention			£1065
	
26 Apr 	Geneva	Bid for FEI European Championships 2015			£395	
9-10 May 	Athens	Torch lighting & handover 			Funded by LOCOG	
16-18  May 	Athens	Olympic Flame Ceremony			Funded by LOCOG	
18-20 May 	Munich	European Cup Final 			£816

22 May 	Canada	GREAT launch in Canada and Sport Accord convention			£2368	
Minister for Culture, Communications & Creative Industries – Ed Vaizey MP (DCMS)	
9-10 May 	Brussels	EU Culture Council			£285	
20-21 May 	Nice	Cannes Film Festival			£513	
8-13 Jun	Tokyo – Japan	Speech at Nikkei Global Investment convention.			£658	
Minister for Tourism and Heritage – John Penrose MP	
Nil						

MEETINGS WITH EXTERNAL ORGANISATIONS (INCLUDING  MEETINGS WITH NEWSPAPER AND OTHER MEDIA PROPRIETORS, EDITORS AND SENIOR EXECUTIVES) 

Secretary of State – Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP	
Date of Meeting 	Name of Organisation	Purpose of Meeting      	
Apr 012	Hewlett-Packard	Introductory meeting 	
Apr 012	LOCOG	General discussion	
Apr 012	Li Ka Shing	Introductory meeting	
Apr 012	LOCOG Cultural Olympiad	General discussion	
Apr 012	LOCOG 	General discussion	
Apr 012	IOC	General discussion	
Apr 012	LOCOG	General discussion	
May 012	BSG, Alcatel-Lucent, Arqiva, BBC, BSkyB, BT, Cisco, Ericsson, Everything Everywhere, Intellect, ITV, Ofcom, TalkTalk, Thales, Three, UK Broadband, Virgin Media, Vodafone 	To discuss broadband	
May 012	PACT, Premier League, Time Warner, BPI, Google, Random House, Frontier Developments, Universal, Beggars Banquet, Sony, Spotify, O2, Virgin Media, Working Titles Films, BSkyB, British Telecom, Apple of Europe, Eidos Games	Business Breakfast	
May 012	LOCOG	General discussion	
May 012	Deloitte	To discuss philanthropy	
May 012	BBC	Local TV discussion	
May 012	Finsbury	To discuss philanthropy	
May 012	Vodafone and O2	Telecoms discussion	
May 012	Global Radio	Digital Radio discussion	
May 012	LOCOG	General discussion	
Jun 012	Roundtable with LOCOG 	Crowd management discussion	
Jun 012	Fight for Peace	General discussion	
Jun 012	Reed Elsevier	Introductory meeting	
Jun 012	Roundtable with the Creative Industries sector	Bi annual creative industries roundtable discussion	
Jun 012	Chris Blackhurst (Independent)	General catch-up	
Jun 012 	Network Rail and Association of Train Operating Companies	Train Passenger information discussion	
Jun 012 	BT	Broadband discussion	
Jun 012 	LOCOG	General discussion	
Jun 012 	LOCOG	General discussion	
Jun 012 	G4S	Visit	
Jun 012 	IOC	General discussion	
Jun 012 	London Legacy Development Cooperation	General discussion	
Minister for Tourism & Heritage – John Penrose MP	
Date of Meeting 	Name of Organisation	Purpose of Meeting      	
Apr 012	ABTA	Catch up	
Apr 012	Association of British Bookmakers	To discuss Horseracing Levy	
Apr 012	Ladbrokes	To discuss Off shore Gambling jobs	
Apr 012	Association of British Bookmakers, British Horseracing Authority	To discuss Horseracing Levy	
Apr 012	Betting Levy Board	General discussion	
Apr 012	London & Partners	General discussion	
Apr 012	Betfair, Remote Gambling Association	To discuss Horseracing Levy	
Apr 012	Tourism for All	General discussion	
May 012	Betfair	To discuss Horseracing Levy	
May 012	AGM Holdings	To discuss the Triennial Review of stakes and prizes	
May 012	Leisure Organisations	Breakfast meeting	
May 012	Historic Houses Association	General discussion	
May 012	Funding Advocacy Group; Heritage Alliance	To discuss VAT on listed buildings	
May 012	Tourism Alliance	General discussion	
May 012	Bookmakers	To discuss Horseracing Levy	
May 012	British Horseracing Authority	To discuss Horseracing Levy	
May 012	Federation of Racecourse Bookmakers	To discuss Horseracing Levy	
May 012	Betfred	To discuss Horseracing Levy	
Jun 012	Destination Management Organisations	Volunteering England Governance Paper	
Jun 012	Twycross Zoo	General tourism discussion	
Jun 012	Heritage Lottery Fund	General Catch up	
Jun 012	Visit Britain and Visit England	To discuss branding and marketing strategy	
Jun 012	Visit England	Visit England governance	
Jun 012	National Casino Industry Forum	To discuss Casino policy	
Jun 012	Greenwich Foundation	To discuss funding model	
Minister for Sport and the Olympics – Hugh Robertson MP	
Date of Meeting 	Name of Organisation	Purpose of Meeting      	
Apr 012	Glasgow 2014	General discussion	
May 012	Football Foundation	Introductory meeting with new Chair	
May 012	LOCOG	General discussion	
May 012	Business in Sport and Leisure Ltd	General discussion	
May 012	LOCOG	Bi-lateral meeting	
May 012	Youth Sports Trust	General discussion	
Jun 012	BBC	To discuss the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games	
Jun 012	BOA	Catch up 	
Jun 012	Sport England and UK Sport	Catch up	
Jun 012	LOCOG	Catch up	
Jun 012	British Olympic Association	National Olympic Committee meeting	
Jun 012	Daily Mail	Catch up	
Jun 012	UK Sport	To discuss the World Athletics Championship 2017	
Jun 012	LOCOG	Regular catch up	
Jun 012	Comic Relief	General discussion	
Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries – Ed Vaizey MP (DCMS)	
Date of Meeting	Name of organisation	Purpose of meeting	
Apr 012	TSB, BFI, UKTI, Skillset, Creative England, NESTA, AHRC, ACE	Creative and Digital Funders roundtable	
Apr 012	Future Publishing Ltd	To discuss publishing	
Apr 012	Regus	To discuss libraries 	
Apr 012	CIPFA, Arts Council.	Follow up meeting	
May 012	London Borough of Camden, Society of Chief Librarians, Birmingham City Council, CILIP, Arts Council, Leicester City Council, Local Government Association	Roundtable on Library workforce.	
May 012	Society of Librarians	General discussion	
May 012	TalkTalk, Virgin Media, Vodafone,  Cable & Wireless, ACE, Everything Everywhere, BT, Three, JANET, SCL, RM, SOCIM	Libraries and Wifi roundtable	
May 012	Artfinder	General discussion	
May 012	BT	To discuss music /labels	
May 012	Guardian	Editorial conference	
May 012	Beggars group	Introductory meeting	
May 012	BFI, RSM Tenon.	Film Tax	
May 012	British Fashion Council	Catch up meeting.	
May 012	Viacom	To discuss piracy	
May 012	Ofcom, BPI, Publishers Association, MPAA, Premier League, BT, Virgin Media, TalkTalk, Sky, Google, Internet Advertising Bureau, FACT	Online Copyright Infringement Round table	
May 012	Mencap, Attitude is Everything, Shape, Action on Hearing Loss, GAMA, Heart N Soul 	Follow on meeting to discuss Live Entertainment Venues	
May 012	Bank of America Merril Lynch, BP, Ernst & Young, Japan Tobacco International, Arts and Business.	Arts and Business roundtable	
May 012	Everything Everywhere	Mobile Filtering	
May 012	AXM Venture Capital Ltd	Introduction meeting	
May 012	MPAA	General discussion	
May 012	Indian National Film Development Corporation	Introduction meeting	
May 012	Huawei UK & Ireland	To discuss further investment	
May 012	Global Radio	To discuss digital radio	
May 012	Johnston Press	MP’s & Local newspaper Q&A	
May 012	Towner Art Gallery - Eastbourne
De La War Pavilion – Bexhill
Jerwood Gallery - Hastings	Regional visit	
May 012	AHRC, Arts Council, UKTI, NESTA, Tech City, TSB, Creative England, Creative Skillset, BFI, British Council, CC Skills, IPA	Roundtable for Digital & Creative Funders.	
May 012	Amanda Levete Architects	V&A new galleries	
May 012	St James’s Theatre	visit	
May 012	Kids in Museums	Catch up	
May 012	Creative Skillset	Catch up	
May 012	Anthony d’Offay	Introduction meeting	
Jun 012	Steven Berkoff	Introduction meeting	
Jun 012	Everything Everywhere	Timing of 1800 liberalization	
Jun 012	Freeview and Arqiva	DTT and 4G co-existence	
Jun 012	Qatar Museums Authority	Discuss proposed visit to Qatar	
Jun 012	Multiple stakeholders.	Open Internet Roundtable	
Jun 012	Artfund and Mishcon de Reya	Wedgwood	
Jun 012	Facebook	Introduction meeting	
Jun 012	Art Council England, John F. Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts	Discuss arts management training programme 	
Jun 012	McQueen Foundation	General discussion	
Jun 012	The Creative Economy	Introductory meeting	
Jun 012	BBC HQ Glasgow, Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Riverside Museum of Transport, Burrell Collection, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow	Regional visit	
Jun 012	Coadec, Tech City Investment Organisation, Holition, Creative Barcode	On line Copyright and small tech companies.	
Jun 012	IPO, Ofcom, BPI, Publishers Association, MPAA, Premier League, BT, Virgin Media, TalkTalk, BskyB, Google, Internet Advertising Bureau, FACT 	Online Copyright Infringement Round table	
Jun 012	Magna-Carta Trust	800th Commemoration	
Jun 012	Karmarama	Catch up  meeting	
Jun 012	NTIA	General discussion