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Defra's senior officials' meetings, October to December 2024

Updated 27 March 2025
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Senior Official's Name Date Name of individual or organisation Purpose of Meeting
Sue Bateman Nil return Nil return Nil return
Nicola Bettesworth Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return
Emma Campbell Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return
Christine Cubitt Nil return Nil return Nil return
David Hill Nil return Nil return Nil return
Sarah Homer Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return
Sebastian Catovsky Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return
David Hallam Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return
Anna Caffyn Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return
Charlotte Baker Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return
Tessa Jones 02/10/2024 Institute of Grocery Distribution Attended meeting with Chief Executive Officer of Institute of Grocery Distribution to discuss current events and concerns in the Food and Drink sector
Toby Nation 08/10/2024 Food and Drink Sector Council Attended quarterly meeting with Retail Stakeholders, Dean of University of York and representative of UK Hospitality to discuss issues in the retail sector.
Toby Nation 09/10/2024 Cranswick Attended meeting with non-executive Chairman of Cranswick to discuss concerns and issues in the retail industry
Toby Nation 14/10/2024 University of York Attended meeting with Dean of York Universtity to discuss resilience building of the UK food system
Toby Nation 15/10/2024 Food and Drink Federation Attended meeting with Director of Sustainability and Growth, Food and Drink Federation, to discuss the Green Paper
Toby Nation 15/10/2024 Booths Attended meeting with Managing Director of Booths to discuss Food Resilience
Toby Nation 16/10/2024 Food and Drink Sector Council Attended quarterly meeting with representatives from retail, farming, Food and Drink Federation and UK Hospitatlity
Tessa Jones 17/10/2024 National Farmers Union Attended meeting with President of National Farmers Union to discuss current issues facing farmers
Tessa Jones 21/10/2024 Methane Suppressing Feed Products Attended Methane Suppressing Feed Products industry taskforce Roundtable with representatives from retailers, stakeholders and devloved governments.
Tessa Jones 07/11/2024 Institute of Grocery Distribution Attended The Food System Net Zero Transition launch hosted by Chief Executive Officer of Institute of Grocery Distribution
Tessa Jones 14/11/2024 Sainsburys Meeting with Chief Executive Officer of sainsburys to discuss the Government’s mission agenda and to reflect on how the retail sector can support this.
Tessa Jones 15/11/2024 Forward Institute Attended meeting with Managing Director of Forward institute to discuss her recent work on the National Food Strategy
Tessa Jones 15/11/2024 Bramble Partners Attended meeting with Co-founder and Managing Partner of Bramble Partners to discuss forthcoming National Food Strategy
Tessa Jones 15/11/2024 Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board Attended meeting with Chairperson of Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board to discuss how the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Food System Strategy interlinks with agricultural and Horticulture industry
Tessa Jones 15/11/2024 Bristish Retail Consortium Attended meeting with Director of Food and Sustainability at the British Retail Consortium regarding the forthcoming Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Food System Strategy
Tessa Jones 15/11/2024 Food and Drink Federation Attended meeting with Director of Sustainability and Growth, Food and Drink Federation, to discuss the forthcoming Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Food System Strategy
Toby Nation 18/11/2024 Food Matters International Ltd Attended meeting with Director of Food Matters Internaltionalto discuss the forthcoming Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Food System Strategy
Tessa Jones 20/11/2024 Food and Drink Investment Summit Attended the Food and Drink Investment summit hosted by Chief Executive of the Food and Drink Federation with the purpose of bringing together stakeholders from the food retail sector to discuss supporting long term growth, productivity, jobs and UK food security.
Toby Nation 26/11/2024 Food and Drink Federation Attended meeting with Director of Sustainability and Growth, Food and Drink Federation, to discuss the Food System Strategy and the recent Food Federation Investment Summit
Tessa Jones 29/11/2024 Cranswick Attended meeting with non-executive Chairman of Cranswick and Director General of Food, Bio-Security and Trade to discuss concerns and issues in the retail industry.
Toby Nation 03/12/2024 Kendamil Nutricare Attended a meeting with Chief Executive Officerof Kendamil Nutricare to review recent events
Tessa Jones 04/12/2024 UK Hospitality Attended meeting with Chief Executive Officer of UK Hospitality to discuss concerns and issues in hospitality Industry and to provide an update regarding the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Food System Strategy
Tessa Jones 05/12/2024 Institute of Grocery Distribution Attended meeting Chief Executive Officer of Institute of Grocery Distribution to discuss current events and concerns in the Food and Drink sector
Tessa Jones 06/12/2024 Veg Power Attended meeting with Chief Executive Officer of Veg Power to discuss next steps for Veg Power in supporting the Government's Health Mission
Toby Nation 09/12/2024 Kendamil Nutricare Attended a meeting with Chief Executive Officer of Kendamil Nutricare to review recent events
Toby Nation 12/12/2024 Environment Group Attended Environment Group meeting on "The future of farming after the Autumn Budget – taxes, subsidies and costs, hosted by Dieter Helm, Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Oxford and Fellow in Economics at New College, Oxford
Tessa Jones 12/12/2024 Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board Attended meeting with Chairperson of Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board to discuss recent events that relate to agricultural and horticulture industry
Tessa Jones 13/12/2024 Bain & Company Attended a meeting with Member of the Energy and Carbon Transition Centre, Bain and Company to discuss Energy and resources in the food industry.
Tessa Jones 13/12/2024 Institute of Grocery Distribution Attended meeting Chief Executive Officer of Institute of Grocery Distribution to discuss current events and concerns in the Food and Drink sector
Toby Nation 16/12/2024 Kendamil Nutricare Attended a meeting with Chief Executive Officer of Kendamil Nutricare to review recent events
James Stone Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return
Joanne Bradshaw Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return
Kate Smaldon Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return
Janet Hughes Nil return Nil return Nil return
Mark Thompson Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return
Iain King Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return
James Greenway Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return
Vicky Moore Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return
Kirsty Wildgoose Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return
Gideon Henderson Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return
Gerry Kaspers Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return
Einav Ben-Yehuda 05/11/2024 Government Transformation Summit A guest speaker slot at a policy conference
Sally Randall Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return
Deborah Hankins Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return
Mike Rowe Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return
Edward Barker Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return
Gabrielle Edwards Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return
Andrea Ledward Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return
Ceri Morgan Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return
Chris Hobley Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return
Christine Middlemiss Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return
Gareth Baynham-Hughes Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return
Emily Miles Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return
Chris Howes 01/10/2024 Amazon Web Services Meeting to discuss 'ReInvent' event in December agenda
Chris Howes 04/10/2024 IBM Meeting to discuss resilience intiatives
Chris Howes 07/10/2024 Capgemini Meeting to discuss Water Quality intiative
Chris Howes 18/10/2024 United Nations Environment Programme Meeting to discuss sustainability of IT
Chris Howes 23/10/2024 Bain State of Digital Government Interview to discuss ways of digital working
Chris Howes 18/11/2024 Government Digital Sustainability Alliance Government Digital Sustainability Alliance Summit IT meeting
Chris Howes 22/11/2024 Wiz Meeting to discuss AI and Cloud initiatives
Edd Parry Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return
Rebecca Shrubsole Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return
Colin Banno Thornton Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return
Colin Dingwall Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return
Tamara Finkelstein 08/10/2024 Singapore Centre for Strategic Futures Discussion on Singapore’s activities in this area, current and previous links to the UK, and how their work influences policy making in Singapore
Tamara Finkelstein 08/10/2024 Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Discussion on public policy challenges, and to learn about the School’s work educating government service figures
Tamara Finkelstein 08/10/2024 Centre for Biodiversity Medicine Visit to the new Centre for Biodiversity Medicine at the National University of Singapore and view of their aquaponics and roof gardens
Tamara Finkelstein 09/10/2024 National Parks Board (NParks) Discussion on Nature and Biodiversity in Southeast Asia, including Tour of the Botanic Gardens focusing on conservation work
Tamara Finkelstein 09/10/2024 Singapore Sustainable Finance Association (SSFA) Discussion on Nature Finance in South-East Asia
Tamara Finkelstein 09/10/2024 Public Utilities Board (PUB) Tour of Singapore’s Marine Barrage and the Sustainable Singapore Gallery. Discussion on Singapore’s approach to water management and the importance of Singapore’s adaptation efforts
Tamara Finkelstein 09/10/2024 Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) Discussion on the continued investment of GIC in British water companies
Tamara Finkelstein 10/10/2024 Singapore Food Agency (SFA) Visit and tour to see and hear how the SFA is working to deliver food security for Singapore and to ensure food that is home grown and imported is safe to consume
Tamara Finkelstein 10/10/2024 Aqualita Ecotechnology Visit to Singapore’s first container fish farm
Tamara Finkelstein 16/10/2024 The Board of Deputies of British Jews Discussion with the Chief Executive Officer
Tamara Finkelstein 21/10/2024 PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Discussion on the outcomes of the PWC work on savings and efficiencies
Tamara Finkelstein 31/10/2024 Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service & Transport for Greater Manchester. Introductory chat with the newly appointed Group Executive
Tamara Finkelstein 11/11/2024 Atom Bank Discusson on devlopment of York Central
Tamara Finkelstein 13/11/2024 Seafish Discussion on the proposed Seafish Levy Reforms with the Seafish Chief Executive Officer
Tamara Finkelstein 13/11/2024 Public Digital Discussion on the Heywood Quarterly article
Tamara Finkelstein 29/11/2024 The Wildlife Trusts Access to Nature discussion linked to Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs's mission and the drivers of a healthier, wealthier and happier population
Tamara Finkelstein 29/11/2024 University of Cambridge Access to Nature discussion linked to Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs's mission and the drivers of a healthier, wealthier and happier population
Tamara Finkelstein 02/12/2024 Heywood Discussion on the Heywood Quarterly article
Tamara Finkelstein 02/12/2024 Loughborough University Discussion on Tamara's Heywood Quarterly article in relation to Loughborough's research project
Tamara Finkelstein 03/12/2024 Institute for Government Attendance to the Institute for Government Board meeting
Tamara Finkelstein 04/12/2024 Cirklo Consult; West Midlands Combined Authority Discussion on Government’s goals for nature in the WMCA area and to highlight the opportunities for devolution