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<p>Details of Ministers' meetings with external organisations are published on <a
href="http://www.gov.uk/" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a> and can be found at the following
link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dclg-ministerial-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dclg-ministerial-data</a>.
The information published includes all meetings up to and including March 2018. Meetings
that have not yet been published, but are due to be in the future, include:</p><p>On
11 July 2018 I met with Councillors David Fothergill and Faye Purbeck from Somerset
County Council and Councillor Harvey Siggs from Mendip District Council following
their request for a meeting to discuss their thoughts about future organisation of
Somerset. There was no minute of the meeting, though I wrote to the Councillors on
26 July 2018 as a follow up to the meeting, and I am placing a copy of that letter
in the Library of the House.</p><p>Following my meeting with the Somerset councillors,
I invited all the Somerset MPs to meet with me on 11 September 2018 to discuss their
thoughts on future organisation of Somerset. Following that meeting I wrote to all
those MPs with some additional information.</p><p>On 19 July 2018, Jake Berry MP attended
a roundtable meeting about high streets and local growth with various councillors
and businesses. Councillor David Fothergill from Somerset County Council was in attendance.</p>
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