MEP of the week

Lobby organisation

Confederation of British Industry

Business / industry · Cross-sector / other · HQ: United Kingdom · Transparency Register entry

As of 9 September 2026, Confederation of British Industry appears in 6 declared MEP meetings (6 different MEPs), most often with European People's Party.

6
declared meetings
with current MEPs
6
MEPs met
€400,000/yr
declared lobbying spend
self-reported to the register
2.2
lobbyists
full time equivalent

In their own words

“Founded 60 years ago and representing some of the biggest names in business, household brands and globally traded corporations that employ people in all sectors and across every region and nation of the UK, the CBI is the voice of business. The CBI represents 850 members who themselves comprise 1,100 separate registered companies and 150,000 trade association members.”

Stated goals from the organisation's own Transparency Register filing.

Who they meet, and when

Which groups they meet

Share of this organisation's 6 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.

European People's Party233%
Renew Europe233%
Socialists & Democrats233%

Meetings by year

Declared meetings per calendar year, 2020–2025. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (2 in 2020).

2020
2
2021
1
2022
0
2023
0
2024
2
2025
1

Group is each MEP's current political group, not necessarily the one they sat with at the time. Shares are rounded to whole percent.

The MEPs they meet most

David McAllister
1 meeting · EPP
Nathalie Loiseau
1 meeting · Renew
Klára Dobrev
1 meeting · S&D
Andreas Schieder
1 meeting · S&D
Barry Andrews
1 meeting · Renew

The 6 most recent declared meetings

DateMEPSubject
14 Jan 2025Barry AndrewsUK-EU Relations
12 Nov 2024Klára DobrevExchange of views on the EU-UK relationshipl, the Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the situation of Northern Ireland
30 Oct 2024Nina CarberryEU-UK Trade & Cooperation Agreement
15 Dec 2021Andreas SchiederExchange of Views
13 Nov 2020Nathalie LoiseauBrexit
29 Oct 2020David McAllisterEU-UK relations

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