{"id":90033,"date":"2018-03-15T20:45:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T20:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=33deb495bbae3a06cf570905e8afddbb"},"modified":"2018-03-15T20:45:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T20:45:05","slug":"press-release-pm-hosts-business-advisory-council-meeting-15-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=90033","title":{"rendered":"Press release: PM hosts Business Advisory Council meeting: 15 March"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A Downing Street spokesperson said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis afternoon the Prime Minister hosted a further meeting of her Business Advisory Council at Downing Street.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Prime Minister opened the roundtable with a summary of key moments in the past few weeks, including progress in the Brexit negotiations, the Chancellor\u2019s Spring Statement and the Industrial Strategy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the UK\u2019s withdrawal from the EU, the Prime Minister spoke about the need to reach agreement with the EU on the terms of the implementation period ahead of the March European Council next week, which the attendees agreed would be vital in providing certainty to businesses and people across the UK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe then reiterated the themes from her Mansion House Speech which set out an ambitious partnership with the EU, one driven by principled practicality rather than ideology. The business leaders welcomed the detail provided in the speech and gave their support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Prime Minister and business leaders also discussed the government\u2019s Industrial Strategy, agreeing on the importance for government and business to work together on all aspects of the plan, particularly investing in the infrastructure and skills needed to support UK productivity growth and the ambition of the government\u2019s \u201cGrand Challenges\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe meeting was also attended by the Chancellor of the Exchequer who provided an update on the Spring Statement, the Business Secretary, Greg Clark, who discussed the Industrial Strategy and Brexit Minister, Suella Fernandes, who spoke about Ministerial engagement with European Member States.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"attendees\">Attendees<\/h2>\n<p>Ivan Menezes, CEO, Diageo<\/p>\n<p>Constantin Cotzias, Director of Bloomberg Europe, Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p>Ant\u00f3nio Horta-Os\u00f3rio, CEO, Lloyds Banking Group<\/p>\n<p>Jan du Plessis, Chairman, BT<\/p>\n<p>Moya Greene, CEO, Royal Mail<\/p>\n<p>Sir Charlie Mayfield, CEO, John Lewis Partnership<\/p>\n<p>Ian Davis, Chairman, Rolls Royce<\/p>\n<p>Mike Cherry OBE, National Chairman, FSB<\/p>\n<p>Dr Adam Marshall, DG, BCC<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Phipson CBE, DG, EEF<\/p>\n<p>Carolyn Fairbairn, DG, CBI<\/p>\n<p>Jayne-Anne Gadhia CBE, CEO, Virgin Money plc<\/p>\n<p>Dame Helena, Head of Personal Investing, Legal &amp; General Group plc<\/p>\n<p>Oliver Benzecry, Chairman and Senior Managing Director, Accenture, UK and Ireland<\/p>\n<p>Dame Carolyn McCall, CEO, ITV<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Theresa May hosts a Business Advisory Council meeting at Downing Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}