## Department For Business, Innovation And Skills 01 October 2013 - 31 December 2013

GIFTS RECEIVED 1 BY SPECIAL ADVISERS   
 
Date gift received 
From   
Description of Gift 
Giles Wilkes 
17 December 
Starbucks 
Box of seasonal 
coffee  
Emily Walch 
10 October 
Channel 4 
DVD 
Retained by the 
Special Adviser 
08 November 
Channel 4 
DVD 
Retained by the 
Special Adviser 
15 November 
Channel 4 
DVD 
Retained by the 
Special Adviser 
18 November 
Ginetta 
Scarf 
Held by the 
department 
17 December 
Starbucks 
Box of seasonal 
coffee  
Nick Hillman 
Nil return 


James Wild 
Nil return 


Name of organisation  
Type of hospitality received 
HOSPITALITY RECEIVED2 BY SPECIAL ADVISERS 
 
Date of 
hospitality 
Giles Wilkes 
18 October  
Financial Times  
Coffee 
24 October 
Financial Times  
Drinks reception 
31 October  
Liberal Democrats 
Dinner 
12 November  
Guardian 
Lunch 
25 November  
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung 
Drinks 
26 November 
Social Liberal Forum  
Coffee 
27 November  
Financial Times  
Drinks 
02 December  
Financial Times  
Drinks reception 
06 December 
Green Investment Bank 
Lunch 
10 December  
Confederation of British 
Industry 
11 December  
Will Hutton 
Drinks 
13 December  
Adam Smith Institute 
Lunch 
16 December  
Centre Forum  
Drinks  
Emily Walch 
04 October 
Bank of England  
Lunch  

## 

Outcome 
Retained by the Special Adviser 
Retained by the Special Adviser 
Drinks 
| 08 October                                          | Green Investment Bank    | Lunch                       |
|-----------------------------------------------------|--------------------------|-----------------------------|
| Dinner                                              | 10 October               | Ingenious Media,The         |
| Dailey Partnership                                  |                          |                             |
| 17 October                                          | Evening standard         | Lunch,                      |
| Dinner                                              | 25 October               | UK                          |
| InteractiveEntertainment                            |                          |                             |
| Ticket to Mercury Music Prize                       | 30 October               | BPI The Recorded Music      |
| Inducstry                                           |                          |                             |
| 07 November                                         | Spectator                | Parliamentarian of the year |
| lunch                                               |                          |                             |
| 18 November                                         | Creative England, Google | Drinks reception            |
| 19 November                                         | Rolls Royce              | Dinner                      |
| Dinner                                              | 21  November             | Professional Publishers     |
| Association                                         |                          |                             |
| 22 November                                         | The Times                | Dinner                      |
| 26 November                                         | Advertising Association  | Drinks reception            |
| 02 December                                         | Financial Times          | Drinks reception            |
| 03 December                                         | Sky                      | Drinks reception            |
| 03 December                                         | The Sunday Times         | Drinks reception            |
| Dinner                                              | 05                       |                             |
|                                                     |                          |                             |
| December                                            | Women in Advertising and |                             |
| Communications (WACL)                               |                          |                             |
| 06 December                                         | Creative Skillset        | Lunch                       |
| 10 December                                         | Birkbeck University      | Dinner                      |
| Nick Hillman                                        |                          |                             |
|                                                     |                          |                             |
| 03 October                                          | Universities Alliance    | Lunch                       |
| 21 October                                          | Times Higher Education   | Lunch                       |
| Lunch and Dinner                                    | 22 October               | London School of            |
| Economics                                           |                          |                             |
| Lunch                                               |                          |                             |
| 24 October                                          | The Higher Education     |                             |
| Policy Institute, Higher                            |                          |                             |
| Education Academy,                                  |                          |                             |
| Quality Assurance Agency                            |                          |                             |
| 31 October                                          | Connect Communications   | Lunch                       |
| 13                                                  |                          |                             |
|                                                     |                          |                             |
| November                                            | Sutton Trust             | Dinner                      |
| 04 November                                         | GuildHE                  | Dinner                      |
| 05 November                                         | GuildHE                  | Lunch                       |
| Dinner                                              | 14                       |                             |
|                                                     |                          |                             |
| November                                            | Fulbright Commission,    |                             |
| Elsevier                                            |                          |                             |
| 28 November                                         | Times Higher Education   | Dinner                      |
| Dinner                                              | 03                       |                             |
|                                                     |                          |                             |
| December                                            | Higher Education Policy  |                             |
| Institute                                           |                          |                             |
| James Wild                                          |                          |                             |
|                                                     |                          |                             |
| 31 October                                          | Conservative Home        | Dinner                      |
| 18 November                                         | Matheson & Co            | Dinner                      |
|                                                     |                          |                             |
|                                                     |                          |                             |
| SPECIAL ADVISERS' MEETINGS WITH NEWSPAPER AND OTHER |                          |                             |
| MEDIA PROPRIETORS, EDITORS AND SENIOR EXECUTIVES    |                          |                             |
| 3                                                   |                          |                             |
|                                                     |                          |                             |
|                                                     |                          |                             |
|                                                     |                          |                             |
| Month of                                            | Name                     | Purpose of Meeting          |
Meeting  
Giles Wilkes 
Nil return 
 
 
Emily Walch 
Nil return 
 
 
Nick Hillman 
Nil return 
 
 
James Wild 
Nil return 

 
1 Staff must record the acceptance of any gift with a value of £10 or more. A gift from a firm or individual which has a retail value of £50 or more is either surrendered to the HR Consultants team or kept and a payment of the value of the gift minus £50 is made to the Department. If the value is less than £50 the gift may be kept, shared with colleagues or displayed in the office with the consent of the Director or their Deputy. The level at which a gift may be retained from foreign governments, government organisations or international organisations is a retail value of £75. 

2 Does not normally include attendance at functions hosted by HM Government; 'diplomatic' 
functions in the UK or abroad, hosted by overseas governments; minor refreshments at meetings, receptions, conferences, and seminars; and offers of hospitality which were declined. Staff should record all other hospitality received apart from minor incidental refreshments*. * indicates if accompanied by spouse/partner or other family member or friend.*   
 
3 Does not include details of meetings where special advisers attended alongside their Ministers