Department for Work and Pensions

Meetings with external organisations including meetings with newspaper and other media proprietors, editors and senior executives1

Period: 1 July to 30 September 2012

Secretary of State for Work and Pensions The Rt. Hon MP Date of Name of External Purpose of Meeting Meeting Organisation July Big Issue Employment for the homeless and social investment July BBC Government employment 5Live and Welfare Programmes Newsnight Today Sept Citizens UK London Living Wage

Minister of State (Minister for Employment) The Rt Hon MP (until 3 September 2012) Date of Name of External Purpose of Meeting Meeting Organisation July The Age & Employment Age & employment for Network older workers July Avanta Work Programme July Ingeus and DISC Mandatory Work Activity July William Wilberforce Trust Project employing the long term homeless & ex - offenders July Inclusion Youth Unemployment July G4S Work Programme July TNT Labour Market Stats July A4E Work Programme July Working Links Work Programme July Maximus Work Programme July Organisation for Economic Co- The Global Economy and Operation and Development Europe Aug EOS Work Programme

Minister of State (Minister for Employment) Mark Hoban MP (from 4 September 2012) Date of Name of External Purpose of Meeting Meeting Organisation Sept Maximus Work Programme Sept Careers Development Group Work Programme

Sept Royal College of Radiologists, Work Capability KPMG, Assessment Changes Dr Alan Makepeace, relating to cancer Prof Jane Maher Sept Inclusion Youth Unemployment

Minister of State (Minister for Pensions) Steve Webb MP Date of Name of External Purpose of Meeting Meeting Organisation July Lane Clark Peacock Private Pensions July Visteon Pensioners Action Pension Protection Fund Group and the Pensions Regulator July Arts Fund Private Pensions July The Pensions Trust Risk Sharing July Fidelity Private Pensions Institute and Faculty of Actuaries National Association of Pension Funds Prudential Which? Ortec Finance JLT Benefit Solutions Institute for Public Policy Research, Lane Clark Peacock, Association of Consulting Actuaries Barnett Waddingham Alliance Bernstein Organisation for Economic Co- operation and Development, AXA Investment Managers Pensions Policy Institute Aviva Financial Services Authority Association of British Insurers July Prudential Private Pensions July National Association of Pension Private Pensions Funds

July Institute and Faculty of Private Pensions Actuaries July Abacus Lighting, Occupational Pensions SAUL (Superannuation Arrangement of the University of London), Arcadia Group, Prudential, Sainsburys, CSC Computer services (Computer Sciences Corporation) , GKN (formerly known as Guest, Keen and Nettlefords), Enodis July Alliance Bernstein Private Pensions September Dutch Association of Industry- Risk sharing in Pension wide Pension Funds Schemes Pensioen Federatie Shell PGGM (Dutch Pension Fund) National Association of Pension Funds General Pensions Group – Dutch September Belron UK Private Pensions September JP Morgan Securities Gleneagles Annual Pensions conference September Association of Consulting Private Pensions Actuaries Alliance Bernstein, KPMG, Punter Southall, Ortec, Slaughter and May, Association of British Insurers, AXA, Towers Watson, Aviva, Building & Civil Engineering, Prudential, JLT Benefit Solutions, Standard Life, The Pension Trust, National Association of Pension Funds, Hogan Lovells September Pensions Policy Institute Pensions reform September British Computer Society Automatic Enrolment Payroll Software Group, QTAC Payroll Products, Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals Ceridian Centrica First Actuarial September Trades Union Congress Private Pensions September Council of Mortgage Lenders Pensions and the

Economy September Association of Pension Guaranteed Minimum Lawyers Pension Equalisation

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Disabled People) Maria Miller MP (until 3 September 2012) Date of Name of External Purpose of Meeting Meeting Organisation July Essex Coalition for Disabled Access to Work People July Women Like Us Childcare July Mumsnet Childcare July National Childminding Childcare Association July National Day Nurseries Childcare Association July Social Market Foundation Childcare July Resolution Foundation Childcare July Bright Horizons Childcare National Childminding Association St Thomas Children’s centre Fatherhood Institute Single Parent Action Network ContinYou Working Families Cannon Lane First School 4children Childminder E-ACT Centre for Research in Early Childhood Mumsnet Daycare Trust Women’s Business Council Director of Children’s Services, Gloucestershire July Resolution Foundation Childcare Family and Parenting Institute Pre-school Learning Alliance Gingerbread Netmums Contact a Family Social Market Foundation University of Oxford National Day Nurseries Association Save the Children King Solomon Academy Aug Busy Bees Childcare

Date of Name of External Purpose of Meeting Meeting Organisation Aug Working Families Childcare

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Disabled People) Esther McVey MP (from 4 September 2012) Date of Name of External Purpose of Meeting Meeting Organisation Sept GMB and UNITE Remploy

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Welfare Reform) Lord Freud Date of Name of External Purpose of Meeting Meeting Organisation July Homeless Link Housing and Universal Credit July Employer Engineering Sickness Absence Federation July Association of British Mesothelioma Insurers/Royal Sun Alliance/ Aviva/ Zurich July Local Authorities, Welsh local Universal Credit and Government Housing Association/Convention of Scottish Local Authorities July Dunedin Canmore Housing Universal Credit and Association and Scottish Housing federation of Housing Associations July Association of British Insurers Mesothelioma July UK Payments Council UK Payments system July Society of Occupational Sickness Absence Medicine and Faculty of Occupational Medicine July Health Professionals Sickness Absence Aug Price Waterhouse Cooper Uncontrolled Debt Aug New Savoy Partnership Mental Health with regard to Work programme Sept Low Income Tax Reform Self Employment Group Sept Children’s Commissioners Welfare Reform and impact on Children’s rights Sept Convention of Scottish Local Universal Credit and Authorities/ Local Authority Housing Workshop / Welsh Local Government Association Sept Gingerbread Welfare Reform Regulations

Date of Name of External Purpose of Meeting Meeting Organisation Sept Obair Associates Sickness Absence Sept Health Professionals Sickness Absence Sept Local Authority Chief Welfare Reform Executives Sept New Savoy Partnership Mental Health with regard to Work Programme

1 Does not normally include meetings with Government bodies such as other Government Departments, NDPBs, Non-Ministerial Departments, Agencies, Government reviews and representatives of Parliament, devolved or foreign governments.