Toby Perkins – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Toby Perkins on 2014-06-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, which organisations (a) he and (b) other Ministers in his Department met to discuss regulation of pub companies in (i) 2013 and (ii) 2014; and on what dates those meetings took place.
Jenny Willott
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has taken an even handed approach to speaking with stakeholders from all sides of the debate in developing our proposals for statutory intervention in the pubs sector.
In 2013, BIS Ministers met the following organisations:
|
Date |
Organisation |
Minister |
|
22 January |
Ministerial Roundtable with licensee groups including: British Institute of Innkeeping; GMB Union; Federation of Licensed Victuallers Associations; Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers; Brighton & Hove Licensees Association; Campaign for Real Ale; Fair Pint Campaign; Independent Pub Confederation; Federation of Small Businesses; Guild of Master Victuallers. |
Jo Swinson |
|
28 January |
Ministerial Roundtable including: British Beer and Pub Association; Punch Taverns; Star Pubs and Bars. |
Jo Swinson |
|
7 February |
Ministerial Roundtable including: Greene King; Shepherd Neame; Everards Brewery; Admiral Taverns; Hook Norton Brewery; Independent Family Brewers of Britain. |
Jo Swinson |
|
21 February |
Meeting with the Scottish Licensed Trade Association. |
Jo Swinson |
|
27 February |
Meeting with Enterprise Inns |
Michael Fallon |
|
10 June |
Ministerial Roundtable including: Everards Brewery; Fuller Smith & Turner; Admiral Taverns; Hook Norton; McMullen & Sons; Shepherd Neame; Wadworth & Co; Trust Inns; Greene King; Titanic Brewery; Westerham Ales; Society of Independent Brewers. |
Jo Swinson |
|
12 June |
Ministerial Roundtable including: British Beer and Pub Association; Enterprise Inns; Marston’s; Mitchells & Butlers; Punch Taverns; Spirit Pub Company; Star Pubs and Bars; Wellington Pub Company. |
Jo Swinson |
|
18 July |
Meeting with Greg Mulholland MP and the Independent Pub Confederation. |
Jo Swinson |
|
30 September |
Meeting with the British Beer and Pub Association. |
Vince Cable |
|
29 October |
Meeting with the Federation of Small Businesses (pubs were discussed as part of a wider meeting). |
Vince Cable |
In 2014, BIS Ministers met the following organisations:
|
Date |
Organisation |
Minister |
|
30 January |
Meeting with the Federation of Small Businesses. |
Vince Cable |
|
12 February |
Meeting with Sir Peter Luff MP and Admiral Taverns; Hook Norton Brewery. |
Jenny Willott |
|
17 March |
Meeting with Greene King. |
Jenny Willott |
|
24 March |
Meeting with representatives of the British Beer and Pub Association; Punch Taverns; Shepherd Neame. |
Jenny Willott |
|
31 March |
Meeting with the Campaign for Real Ale. |
Jenny Willott |
|
25 April |
Meeting with S A Brains. |
Jenny Willott |
In addition to meetings with organisations, Ministers met with a number of tied tenants. Officials also met with stakeholders before, during and after the consultation process to discuss our proposals to establish a Statutory Code and an independent Adjudicator.
