Industry and Parliament Trust
The Industry and Parliament trust is a corporate-Parliament partnership designed to increase the influence of business and give business privileged access to MPs at Westminster. It provided the model for the development of the Scottish Parliament Business Exchange
It describes itself as follows on its website:
- Established in 1977, the Industry and Parliament Trust (IPT) is a registered charity dedicated to fostering mutual understanding between business and Parliament for the public benefit. The Trust is independent, non-partisan and non-lobbying.
- IPT facilitates educational exchange Fellowships for MPs, MEPs, Peers and Officers of both Houses with a range of companies from different sectors of commerce and industry.
- IPT organises a range of study programmes and events for companies in Westminster and in Brussels.
- IPT arranges attachment schemes for civil servants enabling them to see the parliamentary process at first hand in the company of an MP.
Members
- Aberdeen Asset Management
- Aggregate Industries
- AGN Shipley
- American Express
- The Argyll Consultancies
- ARM Ltd
- BAE Systems
- Bank of England
- Barclays
- BASF
- Bloomberg
- The BOC Group plc
- The Boots Group plc
- Bovince
- BP plc
- BP Marsh & Partners
- British American Tobacco
- British Nuclear Fuels Limited
- British Telecommunications
- BUPA
- Cannons Group
- The CarbonNeutral Company
- Centrica
- ConocoPhillips
- David Ramsden Associates
- Degussa UK Holdings
- DHL International UK
- EMAP plc
- Esso UK plc
- Federation of Small Businesses
- Flower City
- Gala Group
- GE Healthcare
- GKN plc
- GlaxoSmithKline UK
- The Go-Ahead Group
- Hepher Dixon
- Imperial College
- Imperial Tobacco
- ITN
- ITV
- John Lewis Partnership
- Johnson and Johnson
- Kingston University
- KPMG
- Ladbrokes Ltd
- Lloyd's of London
- Lloyds/TSB Bank
- Manchester Airport Group
- Marks and Spencer
- Marsh
- Mitchells & Butler
- Motorola
- Muncaster Visitor Management
- Nationwide Building Society
- Nestle UK
- Network Rail
- Norsk Hydro (UK) Ltd
- Northumbrian Water Limited
- O2
- Pfizer Limited
- Pilkington
- Pineapple Developments
- PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Reed Elsevier
- Rio Tinto
- Royal Armouries
- Royal Holloway University of London
- The Royal Bank of Scotland
- RWE npower
- Severn Trent Water Limited
- Shell International Ltd
- Short Brothers plc
- The Simon Martin Group
- Smiths Group
- The Standard Life Assurance Company
- Tesco Stores
- Thales
- Thomas H. Loveday
- Total
- Tunstall Group
- Unilever
- United Kingdom Nirex
- University of Bristol
- UPS Ltd
- Waste Recycling Group Ltd
