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FRINGE EVENTS
TUESDAY
You are advised to check daily with the Viewpress screens at
Conference for any changes to start times.
07.30 07.45
Fringe Events, Tuesday
Citizens Advice Children and Young People Now
The ICC: Hall 7A The ICC: Hall 6B
The Heat is On: Should the fuel poor Community Involvement
expect more than cold comfort? Speakers: Fiona Blacke, Chief Executive
Speakers: Chris Choi, Consumer Editor National Youth Agency; Sarah Lindsell,
ITV News (Chair) (tbc); Teresa Perchard, UK Services Director Duke Edinburgh
Director of Policy Citizens Advice; Awards; Tim Loughton MP, Shadow
John Clough, Chief Executive eaga plc; Minister for Children; Ravi Chandiramani,
Jenny Saunders, Acting Chief Executive Editor CYPN
National Energy Action; (Invite only)
Baroness Wilcox, Shadow BERR Minister;
Russell Hamblin-Boone, Director of
Corporate Affairs Energy Retail Association
(Refreshments available)
07.50
Conservative Christian Fellowship
and Tear Fund
The Work Foundation and BT Birmingham Christian Centre
The ICC: Hall 8B Prayer Breakfast
Diversity and Skills: A receipe for success? Speakers: Alistair Burt MP, Deputy Party
Speakers: Rt Hon Theresa May MP, Chairman Conservative Party;
Shadow Leader of the House of Commons; Matthew Frost, CEO Tearfund
Tim O'Sullivan, Director, Public Affairs (Continental breakfast)
BT; Nick Isles The Work Foundation;
Stephen Alambritis, Head of Public
Affairs FSB
(Breakfast provided)
08.00
BBC World Service and BBC
The Work Foundation and Creative World News
Partnerships The ICC: Hall 11A
The ICC: Hall 8B BBC World Service and BBC World
Is Creative Learning a Trendy Fad or a News Breakfast
Way of Transforming Education? (Full English & Continental breakfasts)
Speakers: Ed Vaizey MP, Shadow Minister
for Culture; Will Hutton, Executive Chair
The Work Foundation; Paul Collard,
Director Creative Partnerships
(Invite only) (Breakfast served)
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08.00
British Chambers of Commerce SAB Miller and Policy Exchange
Hyatt Regency: Dolce Jury's Inn (Broad Street)
Simpler Tax for Maximum Business Growth Round We Go: Curbing problem drinking
Speakers: Philip Hammond MP, Shadow Speakers: Stephen O'Brien MP, Shadow
Chief Secretary to the Treasury; Minister for Health; Gavin Lockhart, Head
David Frost, Director General British of Health Unit Policy Exchange (Chair)
Chambers of Commerce (Chair); (Refreshments available)
Rt Hon John Redwood MP, Chairman of
Economic Competitiveness Policy Group; Serco and Policy Exchange
Stephanie Churchill, Senior Tax Manager Jury's Inn (Broad Street)
Grant Thornton Out of Work, Out of Ideas? Welfare reform
(Invite only) (Continental breakfast) a decade after the New Deal
Speakers: Chris Grayling MP, Shadow
Fringe Events, Tuesday
ippr and Policy Exchange Secretary of State for Work and Pensions;
The ICC: Hall 8A Pef Ian Finn University of Portsmouth;
How Progressive Are the New Conservatives? Richard Johnson, Managing Director
Speakers: Oliver Letwin MP, Chairman of Serco Welfare to Work; Dr Oliver Marc
the Policy Review and Conservative Hartwich, Chief Economist Policy
Research Department Exchange (Chair); Kate Green, Chief
(Refreshments available) Executive Child Poverty Action Group
(Refreshments available)
National Housing Federation
Hyatt Regency: Board Room Social Market Foundation and
Zero Carbon Homes: An answer to climate Barrow Cadbury Trust
change or just more hot air? Hyatt Regency: Allegro
Speakers: tbc Can the Conservative Party be Tough
(Breakfast provided) on Immigration and Remain the `Party
of Business'?
NSPCC Speakers: Damian Green MP, Shadow
The ICC: Hall 10B Minister for Immigration; Lord Wakeham
A Child's Right to Safety: Living with (tbc); Simon Vincent, Area President UK
domestic violence Hilton Group (tbc); Sukvinder Stubbs,
Speakers: Maria Miller MP, Shadow Chief Executive Barrow Cadbury Trust;
Minister for Families; Dr Ravinder Thiara, Ann Rossiter Social Market
Senior Research Fellow Warwick Foundation (Chair)
University; Mary March, Director and (Refreshments available)
Chief Executive NSPCC
(Refreshments available) Social Market Foundation and
IPA-Involve
PwC and Policy Exchange The ICC: Exec Room 2
Jury's Inn (Broad Street) Disengaged Workers + An Uncompetitive
Preparing for Power: How can Britain? Promoting engagement for
Government be made fit for purpose? increased productivity
Speakers: Francis Maude MP, Shadow Speakers: Mark Prisk MP (tbc); Ian Horton
Minister for the Cabinet Office; Egg People Forum; Wendy Schratz Citi UK;
Representative of PwC; Lisa Harker, Nita Clarke IPA-Involve; Ian Mulheirn
Co-Director ippr; Roger Gough, Head of Social Market Foundation (Chair)
Government Unit Policy Exchange (Chair) (Refreshments available)
(Refreshments available)
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08.00 12.00
The Freedom Association, The Free The Sun
Society and Forest Novotel Birmingham Centre
Austin Court (Cambridge Street): Broken Britain Fringe Debate
Kingston Theatre & Lounge Bar Star Panellist tbc. Lunch from 12.00hrs
The Freedom Zone and Fringe from 12.30 hrs
Open until 21.00 hrs (Refreshments available)
(Cash bar)
Tory Green Initative
The ICC: Media Suite
12.30
Beginnings
Speakers: tbc Hyatt Regency: Fortissimo
(Breakfast provided) Retaining People With Disabilities
in Employment
Tuesday
08.30
Fringe Events, Sunday
Speakers: James Clappison MP, Shadow
Employment Minister; Keith Faulkner,
Reform Managing Director Working Links;
The ICC: Hall 11B Peter Dewis, Customer Care Director
A Fair NHS: Can Information Unum; Steve Winyard, Head of Public Policy
defeat Inequality? RNIB; Liz Sayle, Chief Executive RADAR
Speakers: Andrew Lansley CBE MP, (Refreshments available)
Shadow Secretary of State for Health;
Prof Nick Bosanquet, Consultant Director Centre for Local Economic
Reform (Chair) Strategies (CLES)
(Refreshments available) Birmingham and Midland Institute:
John Peek Conference Room
10.30
If It Ain't Working Let's Fix It! The new
choices for economic inactivity
National Autistic Society, Conservative Speakers: Neil McInroy, Chief Executive
Future and The Bow Group CLES; Sarah Longlands, Director of
The ICC: Hall 8A Policy CLES
Informal Brunch: Important issues (Refreshments available)
(Refreshments available)
Conservative Action for
The Selsdon Group with The Electoral Reform
Freedom Association The ICC: Exec Room 1
Austin Court (Cambridge Street): Have We Got Seats For You? A satirical quiz
Freedom Zone (Kingston Theatre) Speakers: Bruce Anderson, Columnist,
Freedom from High Taxes The Independent; Keith Best
Speakers: Rt Hon John Redwood MP, Conservative Action for Electoral Reform;
Chairman Economic Competitiveness Lewis Baston, Director of Research
Policy Group; Matthew Elliott, Chief Electoral Reform Society
Executive Taxpayers Alliance (Refreshments available)
(Refreshments available)
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12.30
Conservative Women's Organisation ippr with AOC
and Oxfam The ICC: Hall 6B
The ICC: Hall 9 Raising the Bar: A fair chance for
Climate Change: How to be Blue and Green every child?
Speakers: Pauline Lucas, Chairman Speakers: David Collins, President AOC;
Conservative Women's Organisation; Sonia Sodha, Research Fellow ippr
Andrew Mitchell MP, Shadow Secretary of (Refreshments available)
State for International Development;
Dame Barbara Stocking, Director Oxfam Nexus
The ICC: Hall 10B
First Defence sponsored by EADS Putting the Passenger First
The ICC: Hall 5 Speakers: Simon Moppet, Chairman
Resurgent Threats: Terror, Russia and Iran? CTG (Chair); tbc Member for Transport
Tuesday
Speakers: Dr Liam Fox MP, Shadow Secretary Front Bench; Anthony Smith, Director
Fringe Events, Sunday
of State for Defence; Dr Jack Caravelli, Passenger Focus; Neil Scales, Chair PTEG
Visiting Prefessor UK Defence Academy; (Refreshments available)
Journalist (tbc)
(Refreshments available) NSPCC and T-Mobile
The ICC: Symphony Hall Stage
Heritage Lottery Fund Protecting Children in a Digital World
Hyatt Regency: Drawing Room Speakers: Mary Marsh, Chief Executive
Britishness: Whose identity is it anyway? NSPCC; Jim Hyde, Managing Director
Speakers: Ed Vaizey MP Shadow Minister T-Mobile UK; Peter Robbins, Chief
for Arts; Rachel Johnson, Novelist and Executive Internet Watch Foundation
Journalist; Douglas Murray Author & (Refreshments available)
Director Centre for Social Cohesion;
The Rt Hon The Lord Baker of Dorking CH, NUT, Treehouse and RNID
Campaigner for a Museum of British The ICC: Hall 7
History; Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, PPC Improving Inclusion for Pupils with SEN
Chippenham, also known as the Black Speakers: Alexandra Frean, Education
Farmer; Wesley Kerr, Broadcaster & HLF Editor The Times (Chair) (tbc);
Committee Member (Chair) Tim Loughton MP, Shadow Minister for
(Refreshments available) Children; Christine Blower, Acting
General Secretary NUT; Ian Wylie, Chief
Institute of Directors Executive Treehouse; Brian Lamb OBE
The ICC: Media Suite Director of Comms, RNID
What Does a Conservative Vision for the (Refreshments available)
Economy Look Like?
Speakers: Miles Templeman, Director Scottish Conservative Party
General Institute of Directors; The ICC: Hall 10A
Philip Hammond MP, Shadow Chief Scottish Fringe
Secretary to the Treasury Speakers: David Mundell MP, Shadow
(Refreshments available) Secretary of State for Scotland;
Annabel Goldie MSP, Leader Scottish
Conservative Party
(Complimentary buffet lunch)
The Conservative Party Conference 2008 91
12.30
Society of Conservative Lawyers Tower Hamlets Conservatives
The ICC: Hall 11B The ICC: Halcyon Gallery
Politics: Out of bounds for charities East London: The changing face of the
Speakers: Greg Clark MP, Shadow Minister Conservative Party
for the Cabinet Office; Stanley Brodie QC Speakers: Cllr Tim Archer Blackwall &
Blackstone Chambers Cubitt Town and PPC For Poplar and
(Refreshments available) Limehouse; Cllr Peter Golds Blackwall &
Cubitt Town; Cllr Phil Briscoe Blackwall
Stonewall & Cubitt Town
Jury's Inn (Broad Street): Room 102 (Refreshments available)
Why Gay People Should Vote Conservative
Speakers: Nick Boles, PPC Grantham; V
Margot James, Vice Chairman of the The ICC: Exec Room 7
Tuesday
Conservative Party & PPC; Nick Herbert MP, Got Good Skills? Time for business to
Fringe Events, Sunday
Shadow Justice Secretary; Andrew Pierce, value volunteering
Assistant Editor The Daily Telegraph (Chair); Speakers: John Hayes MP, Shadow
Ben Summerskill, Chief Executive Stonewall Minister for Vocational Education (tbc);
(Refreshments available) Alistair Burt MP; Young Volunteers, v20
V's Youth Advisory Board; John McGurk,
Telegraph Media Group Public Policy Adviser, Training,
The ICC: Hall 11A Learning and Development CIPD;
The Telegraph Forum Orlando Fraser (Chair)
Speaker: Andrew Pierce, Assistant Editor, (Refreshments available)
The Daily Telegraph Telegraph Media
12.45
Group (Chair)
(Refreshments available)
ABHI, FPA, Unison and Breakthrough
Thames Gateway Parliamentary Group Breast Cancer Care
Birmingham Central Library: The ICC: Hall 8A
Library Theatre Personalised Healthcare: Help or hindrance?
Thames Gateway: A Conservative future Speakers: Dr Paco Leyva, Consultant
Speakers: Cllr Stephen Castle, Essex County Cardiologist, Good Hope Hospital Sutton
Council Cabinet Member for Economic Coldfield; Angela Coulter, Chief Executive
Development, Regeneration and the London The Picker Institute; Jeremy Hughes,
2012 Games; Stewart Jackson MP, Chief Executive Breakthrough Breast
Thames Gateway Spokesperson; Cancer; Julie Bentley, Chief Exeutive
Lorraine Baldry, Chairman London Thames Family Planning Association
Gateway Development Corporation; (Refreshments available)
Roger Evans London Assembley Member;
James Morris, Chief Executive Localis Age Concern, NEA and Unison
(Refreshments available) The ICC: Hall 6A
Low Pay, Fuel Poverty and Pensions: Why
The Work Foundation and ASDA is the choice still heat or eat?
The ICC: Exec Room 8 Speakers: Francis Maude MP, Shadow
The Rising Cost of Living: Who pays? Minister for the Cabinet Office (tbc);
Speakers: Justine Greening MP; Will Hutton, Patrick South, Head of Public Affairs
Executive Chair The Work Foundation; Age Concern England; Jenny Saunders,
Paul Kelly, Director of Corporate Acting Chief Executive National Energy
Affairs ASDA Action; A representative from Unison
(Refreshments available)
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12.45
British Red Cross Localis and Policy Exchange
Hyatt Regency: Dolce Jury's Inn (Broad Street)
Dispatches from Disaster Zones Breaking Up Britain? The future of
Speakers: Martin Bell, Reporter (Chair); regional government
Senior spokesperson from the Speakers: Eric Pickles MP, Shadow Secretary
Conservative Party; Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, of State for Communities and Local
Journalist; Sir Nicholas Young, Chief Government; James Morris, Chief Executive
Executive British Red Cross Localis; Dermot Finch, Director Centre
(Refreshments available) For Cities; Sheila Childerhouse, Board
Member EEDA; Roger Gough, Head of
Charities Aid Foundation and Government Unit Policy Exchange (Chair)
Policy Exchange (Refreshments available)
Jury's Inn (Broad Street)
Who Gives...? Can we create guidelines Medical Protection Society (MPS) and
Tuesday
Fringe Events, Sunday
for charitable giving? Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
Speakers: Jeremy Hunt MP, Shadow The ICC: Hall 8B
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and The Blame Game: Is the balance right
Sport; John Low, Chief Executive between culpability and accountability
Charities Aid Foundation; Louisa Mitchell, in healthcare?
Senior Fellow Policy Exchange; Speakers: Andrew Lansley CBE MP,
Danny Finkelstein The Times (Chair); Shadow Secretary of State for Health;
Joe Saxton Institute of Fundraising
Dr Stephanie Bown, Director of Policy
(Refreshments available)
and Communications MPS;
Representative from NMC; Representative
Climate Clinic
from Patients Association
Climate Clinic at Regency Wharf
(Refreshments available)
(behind Hyatt Regency)
Eco-Towns: Green solution or
white elephant? New Economics Foundation, Sustain
Speakers: Sunand Prasad, President RIBA and Friends Of The Earth
(Chair); Grant Shapps MP, Shadow Housing Climate Clinic at Regency Wharf
Minister; Shaun Spiers, Chief Executive (behind Hyatt Regency)
Campaign to Protect Rural England; Food Prices: How high can they go?
Sir Simon Milton, Deputy Mayor, Policy Speakers: Andy Atkins, Chief Executive
and Planning Greater London Authority Friends of the Earth (Chair);
(Refreshments available) Peter Ainsworth MP, Secretary of State for
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs;
Help the Aged, Alzheimer's Society Felicity Lawrence, Author and Journalist
and Parkinson's Disease Society The Guardian; Jeanette Longfield,
The ICC: Hall 8 Foyer Co-ordinator Sustain
1 in 3: How should we respond to the (Refreshments available)
dementia challege?
Speakers: Stephen O'Brien MP, Shadow NLGN
Minister for Health; Neil Hunt, Chief The ICC: Exec Room 2
Executive Alzheimer's Society; Safe as Houses?
Lucianne Sawyer CBE External Ref Group Speakers: Sir Simon Milton, Deputy Mayor,
on the National Dementia Strategy; Policy and Planning Greater London
Peter Ashley, Person with Dementia and Authority; Cllr Mike Whitby, Leader
Parkinson's Disease; Kate Jopling, Head of Birmingham City Council (tbc);
Public Affairs, Help the Aged; Rosie Boycott, Anna Turley, Deputy Director, NLGN (Chair);
Journalist and Broadcaster (Chair) Bob Neill MP, Shadow Minister for
(Refreshments available) Communities and Local Government (tbc)
(Refreshments available)
The Conservative Party Conference 2008 95
12.45
The Chamber of Shipping New Statesman and Edexcel
Copthorne Hotel (Paradise Place): Novotel Birmingham Centre
Jubilee Room Lessons for Now: Unlocking pupils' talents
The Food Miles Myth: Risk to lives and Speakers: John Hayes MP; Jennie Russell
the environment? (tbc); Jerry Jarvis, Managing Director
Speakers: Martin Watson, President Edexcel; Will Hutton, Executive Director
Chamber of Shipping (Chair); Rob Ashdown, The Work Foundation (tbc); Dame Ruth Silver,
Manager of Environment Affairs Chamber Principal Lewisham College
of Shipping; Richard King Oxfam GB; (Refreshments available)
Shadow Minister (tbc)
(Buffet lunch) New Statesman and United Utilities
Copthorne Hotel (Paradise Place):
Kohinoor Suite
13.00
Tuesday
What Price Clean Water? The
Fringe Events, Sunday
Centre for Policy Studies global challenge
GVA Grimley Ltd (Brindley Place) Speakers: Anne McIntosh MP, Shadow
Fixing Britian's Broken Society Minister Environment, Food & Rural
Speakers: Chris Grayling MP, Shadow Affairs; Barbara Gunnell, Associate Editor
New Statesman (Chair); Margaret Batty,
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions;
Director of Policy & Campaigns WaterAid;
Fraser Melson The Spectator;
Prof Mark Maslin, Director UCL
Shaun Bailey, CPS Research Fellow/ PPC
Environment Institute
Hammersmith; Stephen Greenhalgh,
(Hot buffet)
Leader Hammersmith and Fulham
Council; Jill Kirby, Director Centre for
Politeia
Policy Studies (Chair)
The Birmingham & Midlands
(Refreshments available)
Institute: Dickens Room
Any Questions?
Core Cities and Urban Hub
Speakers: Michael Gove MP, Shadow
City Inn (Brindley Place):
Secretary of State for Children, Schools
Meeting Rooms 2 & 3
and Families; Oliver Letwin MP, Chairman
Financing the Future of Cities: Who pays?
of the Policy Review and of the
Speakers: Stephen Hughes, Chief Conservative Research Department;
Executive Birmingham City Council (Chair); Rt Hon Lord Strathclyde, Leader of the
Kulveer Ranger, Director of Transport Opposition House of Lords (Chair);
Policy, Mayor of London's Office; David Willetts MP, Shadow Secretary of
Bob Neill MP (tbc) State for Innovation, Universities and Skills;
(Refreshments available) Dr Sheila Lawlor, Director Politeia
Dignity in Dying Social Market Foundation and Bayer
Hyatt Regency: Concerto Jury's Inn (Broad Street): Room 110
Is There Such a Thing as a `Good Death'? Doctor's Orders or Patients' Choice? Can
Speakers: Crispin Blunt MP, Conservative real choice in healthcare become a reality?
Whip; Sarah Wootton, Chief Executive Speakers: Anne Milton MP, Shadow Minister
Dignity in Dying; Paul Cann, Director of for Health (tbc); Prof Nick Bosanquet,
Policy Help The Aged Imperial College (tbc); David Pink, Chief
(Refreshments available) Executive Long Term Conditions Alliance
(tbc); Lyndsay Mountford Social Market
Foundation (tbc); Richard Vise, Editor
Health Service Journal (Chair)
(Refreshments available)
The Conservative Party Conference 2008 97
13.00 16.00
Social Market Foundation, The Kent County Council
Go-Ahead Group and Transit Magazine Birmingham Rep Theatre:
Jury's Inn (Broad Street): Room 108 St Paul Suite
Next Stop a Greener Future: Getting Skills Fit for the 21st Century
Britain onto public transport Speakers: Cllr Paul Carter, Leader Kent
Speakers: Stephen Hammond MP, County Council; Peter Gilroy, Chief
Shadow Minister for Transport (tbc); Executive Kent City Council; Shadow
Sir Ian McCallister, Chairman, Carbon Minister (tbc)
Trust (tbc); Keith Ludeman, Chief (Refreshments available)
Executive Go-Ahead Group (tbc);
17.30
Ian Mulheirn, South Market Foundation;
Helen Nugent The Times (tbc) (Chair)
(Refreshments available) All Party Light Rail Group
Tuesday
Fringe Events, Sunday
Council House:
The Centre For Social Justice and Committee Rooms 3 & 4
Refugee Council The Importance of Light Rail for an
Novotel Birmingham Centre Integrated Transport System
Destitution: An asylum seeker's reality? Speakers: Sir George Young MP (Chair);
Speakers: Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP, Stephen Hammond MP, Vice Chair
Chairman The Centre for Social Justice; Citizens Advice APPG; Mathew Colledge,
Donna Covey, Chief Executive Refugee Chairman GMPTE; Geoff Inskip UK Tram;
Council; Julian Prior, Chairman CSJ David Cockle LRTE
Asylum Working Group (Refreshments available)
(Buffet lunch)
Confederation of West Midlands
The Cornerstone Group Chambers of Commerce
The Oratory (Hagley Road): Upper Birmingham Chamber of Commerce
Cloister Hall & Industry (Harborne Road)
Abortion and the Human Embryology Bill Transforming the West Midlands'
Speakers: Nadine Dorries MP; Economy: Business talks
Edward Leigh MP Speakers: David Burton, Chairman
(Refreshments available) Confederation of West Midlands Chambers
of Commerce (Chair); Mark Prisk MP,
15.00 Shadow Minister for Business & Enterprise;
Michael Laverty, Chief Executive
Conservative Transport Group Advantage West Midlands; Pat Jackson,
Regency Wharf Director Regional Skills Partnership
(Behind Hyatt Regency): Blue Mango (Refreshments available)
Topical Transport Group
Speakers: tbc Fabian Society, Chartered Institute
(Refreshments available) of Housing and Groundwork
Building Sustainable
Communities: Can Housing Policy
Tackle Worklessness?
Speakers: Grant Shapps MP, Shadow
Housing Minister; Other speakers (tbc)
(Invite only) (Refreshments available)
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17.30
Foreign Policy Centre and Coca-Cola Climate Clinic and Green Alliance
Great Britain Climate Clinic at Regency Wharf
Hyatt Regency: Scherzo (behind Hyatt Regency)
Wealth Creation: Paving a way out Green Verdict on Environmental Politics
of poverty Speakers: Peter Ainsworth MP, Shadow
Speakers: Salvatore Gabola, Director, Secretary of State for Environment,
Stakeholder Relations The Coca-Cola Food & Rural Affairs; Fiona Reynolds,
Company; Larry Elliott, Economics Editor Director General The National Trust;
The Guardian; Stephen Twigg, Director Graham Wynne, Chief Executive RSPB;
Foreign Policy Centre (Chair) Camilla Cavendish, Leader Writer The
(Refreshments available) Times (tbc)
(Refreshments available)
Forest and Free Spirits
Tuesday
Austin Court (Cambridge Street): Conservative Middle East Council,
Fringe Events, Sunday
Freedom Zone (Lounge Bar Conservative Arab Network and the
& Courtyard) Council for Arab-British Understanding
Champagne Reception Cigarettes and The ICC: Halcyon Gallery
civil liberties Iran, Arabia and the West: Understanding
(Cash bar) the triangle
Speakers: Baroness Warsi, Shadow
Minister for Community Cohesion and
17.45 Social Action; Dr Wafik Moustafa (Chair)
(Complimentary drinks & buffet supper)
Centre for Cities and Urban Hub
City Inn (Brindley Place):
Meeting Rooms 2 & 3 CRC, CRAG & Countryside Alliance
Skilling up Cities? Is the UK up to the job? The ICC: Box Office Suite Foyer
Speakers: James Clappison MP, Shadow Level 3
Employment Minister; Lucy de Groot, Rural Drinks Reception
Executive Director IDeA; Tony Douglas, Speakers: James Paice MP, Shadow
COO Laing O'Rourke; Dermot Finch, Minister for Agriculture; Simon Hart,
Director Centre for Cities (Chair); Chief Executive Countryside Alliance;
Cllr Ken Taylor, Leader Coventry Dr Stuart Burgess, Rural Advocate
City Council Commission for Rural Communities
(Refreshments available) (Refreshments available)
Citizens Advice with Places for Finance & Leasing Association
People and The Co-operative Hyatt Regency: Dolce
Financial Services Financing SME Growth An engine
Hyatt Regency: Andante for prosperity
There's No Place Like Home: Is affordable Speakers: Stephen Sklaroff, Director
housing now out of reach? General Finance & Leasing Association
Speakers: David Harker, Chief Executive (Chair); Richard Spring MP, Vice Chairman
Citizens Advice; David Gauke MP, of the Conservative Party; John Wright,
Shadow Treasury Minister; David Cowans, National Chairman Federation of Small
Chief Executive People for Places; Businesses; George Derbyshire, Chief
John Barker, Head of Mortgage Lending Executive National Federation of
The Co-operative Bank Enterprise Agencies
(Refreshments available) (Refreshments available)
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17.45
Food and Drink Federation London Councils
Hyatt Regency: Concerto The ICC: Exec Room 1
The Politics of Cost: The impact of the Trusting Devolution: The road to a city
rising cost of living charter for London
Speakers: from the Food & Drink Speakers: David Walker, Editor Guardian
Federation and Energy Retail Assocation PUBLIC (Chair); Merrick Cockell, Chair
London Councils; Tony Travers, Director,
General Medical Council, Healthcare Greater London Group London School
Commission and New Health Network of Economics
The ICC: Hall 8B
The Changing NHS: What happens next? Marie Curie Cancer Care and Help
Speakers: Finlay Scott, Chief Executive The Hospices
General Medical Council; Anna Walker, The ICC: Hall 8A
Tuesday
Chief Executive Healthcare Commission; Whose Death Is It Anyway?
Fringe Events, Sunday
Dr Richard Lewis, Director Ernst & Young; Speakers: Vicki Morrey, Chief Executive
Laura Donnelly, Health Correspondent Prospect Hospice; Marie Curie, Nurse
Sunday Telegraph Marie Curie Cancer Care; Niall Dickson,
(Refreshments available) Chief Executive King's Fund
(Refreshments available)
Global Vision
The ICC: Hall 10B National Academy for
What Next for Britain and Europe? Parenting Practitioners
Speaker: Ruth Lea, Director Global Vision Hyatt Regency: Soprano
(Refreshments available) Speakers: Hilton Dawson National
Academy for Parenting Practitioners (Chair);
KPMG and Policy Exchange Professor Mark Dadds, Professor of
Jury's Inn (Broad Street) Parenting Studies King's College London
Ask Me Anything (Refreshments available)
Speakers: Michael Gove MP, Shadow
Secretary of State for Children, Schools New Economics Foundation
and Families; Charles Moore, Chairman The ICC: Exec Room 8
Policy Exchange (Chair) Are We Failing our Poorest Communities?
(Refreshments available) Why we need a new vision for
social investment
Leadership Centre Speakers: Stewart Wallis OBE, Executive
Hyatt Regency: Fortissimo Director New Economics Foundation
Devolution with a Difference (Chair); Danielle Walker-Palmour, Director
Speakers: Christina Dykes, Conservative Friends Provident Foundation;
Political Director Leadership Centre Michele Giddens, Chief Executive Bridges
(Chair); Bob Neill MP, Shadow Local Venture Capital; Jessica Brown, Access to
Government Minister; Sir Simon Milton, Finance New Economics Foundation;
Deputy Mayor, Policy and Planning Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP (tbc)
Greater London Authority; (Refreshments available)
Cllr Colin Barrow, Leader Westminster
City Council
(Refreshments available)
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17.45
New Statesman and Edge RSPCA
Copthorne Hotel (Paradise Place): The ICC: Hall 10A
Kohinoor Suite Dangerous Dogs: The weapon of choice?
Restoring the Gold Standard: Ensuring Speakers: Bill Wiggin MP, Shadow
world class education Minister for Environment, Food & Rural
Speakers: Nick Gibb MP, Shadow Minister Affairs; Ian Cawsey MP Labour
for Schools; Jackie Ashley (tbc); (Refreshments available)
Rod Kenyon, Director British Gas
Engineering Academy; Andy Powell, South East England
Chief Executive Edge; Lynette Wieland Development Agency
National Learner Panel Hyatt Regency: Drawing Room
(Hot Buffet) Major Tom to Ground Control
Speaker: Christopher McLaughlin,
Tuesday
Oxfam and Fawcett Society Director INMARSAT
Fringe Events, Sunday
The ICC: Hall 9 (Refreshments available)
Carer, Earner, Entrepreneur: How can the
Conservatives help women fulfil their The Nuclear Dialogue Group
economic potential? The ICC: Hall 7
See our advert for further details Nuclear: Solutions for the future
(Refreshments available) Speakers: tbc
(Refreshments available)
Passenger Focus
Birmingham Council House: Transport for London
Banqueting Hall The ICC: Media Suite
Can We Give Passengers World Class Keeping London Moving...To Keep
Train and Bus Services? Britain Growing?
Speakers: Colin Foxall, Chairman Stephen Hammond MP, Shadow
Passenger Focus (Chair); Anthony Smith, Transport Minister; Peter Hendy CBE
Chief Executive Passenger Focus; Transport for London; Kulveer Ranger,
Richard Bowker, Chief Executive National Mayor of London's Office;
Express Group (tbc); London First (invited)
(Refreshments available) (Refreshments available)
18.00
Reform
The ICC: Hall 11A
Brown's Busted Britain? Action for Children
Speakers: Alan Duncan MP, Shadow The ICC: Exec Room 7
Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise Too Many Cooks? Who knows best for
and Regulatory Reform; Andrew Haldenby, vulnerable children?
Director Reform (Chair); Michael Izza, Speakers: Maria Miller MP, Shadow
Chief Executive ICAEW Minister for the Family; Anne Atkins,
(Refreshments available) Writer and Broadcaster; Clare Tickell, CEO
Action for Children
Reform (Refreshments available)
The ICC: Hall 11B
The Lawful Society
Speakers: David Ruffley MP, Shadow
Minister for Police Reform
(Refreshments available)
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DEA, British Council for Schools and Kapsch and Policy Exchange
Environments and Policy Exchange Jury's Inn (Broad Street)
Jury's Inn (Broad Street) The Road to Nowhere: The future for
Facts or Feelings: What should we teach British motorists
our kids? Speakers: Theresa Villiers MP, Shadow
Speaker: Dr Anthony Seldon, Master Secretary of State for Transport;
Wellington College; Hetan Shah, CEO Dan Lewis, Research Director Economic
DEA; Ty Goddard, Director British Research Council; Joerg Konrad, Strategy
Council for School Environments; Director Kapsch; Dr Oliver Marc Hartwich,
Sam Freedman, Head of Education Chief Economist Policy Exchange (Chair)
Policy Exchange (Chair) (Refreshments available)
(Refreshments available)
Midlands World Trade Forum
University College Birmingham
Tuesday
Fabian Society
Fringe Events, Sunday
Holiday Inn Birminghm City Centre: (Summer Row): Brasserie
Arden Suite `Quaff My Bluff': Wine tasting event
An opportunity to learn how the West
Child Poverty Challenge
Midlands is at the forefront of the UK's
Speakers: Polly Toynbee The
Export Economy
Guardian; Martin Norey Barnardo's;
(Refreshments available)
Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP;
Dr Samantha Callan Centre for Policy Exchange
Social Justice Jury's Inn (Broad Street)
(Refreshments available) Standing Room Only: Is Britain full?
Speaker: Gavin Lockhart, Head of Crime
Groundwork and Marks & Spencer and Justice Unit Policy Exchange (Chair)
Groundwork UK (Scotland Street) (Refreshments available)
Champagne Reception
(Invite only for further information Social Market Foundation and
contact Anna Ring on 07748 320 075) EDF Energy
Jury's Inn (Broad Street): Room 108
Institution of Civil Engineers and A Lighter Footprint: Delivering low
Royal Institute of British Architects carbon energy for the future
Jury's Inn (Broad Street): Room 106 Speakers: Charles Hendry MP (tbc);
Security and Resilience: Defending our Benet Northcote Greenpeace; Tom Delay
built environment Carbon Trust (tbc); Chief Operating
Speakers: Baroness Neville-Jones DCMG, Officer EDF Energy; Ann Rossiter Social
Shadow Security Minister; Roger Evans AM, Market Foundation (Chair)
London Assembly; Tim Chapman, Chair (Refreshments available)
ICE Best Practice Panel; Sunand Prasad,
President, RIBA (Chair) Social Market Foundation and Food
(Refreshments available) Standards Agency
Jury's Inn (Broad Street): Room 110
Nanny Knows Best? Should the
Government do more to enforce healthier
lifestyle choices?
Speakers: Mike Penning MP, Shadow
Minister for Health (tbc); David Aaronovitch,
Columnist The Times; Dame Deirdre
Hutton, Chair FSA; Lyndsay Mountford
Social Market Foundation (Chair)
(Refreshments available)
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18.00 18.15
Social Market Foundation and 4Children and FSA
Independent Age Austin Court (Cambridge Street):
The ICC: Hall 6B Lodges 1, 2 and 3
Subsistence is Not Enough: How should Making Money Work for Hard-
we fund fulfilling lives for older people? Working Families
Speakers: Nigel Waterson MP (tbc); Speakers: Chris Grayling MP, Shadow
Paul Snell Commission for Social Care Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Inspection; Janet Morrison, Chief Executive (tbc); Daniel Finkelstein, Comment Editor
Independent Age; Simon Griffiths -The Times (tbc); Anne Longfield, Chief
Social Market Foundation (Chair) Executive 4Children; Chris Pond, Director
(Refreshments available) for Financial Capability Financial
Services Authority
Social Market Foundation and Institute (Refreshments available)
Tuesday
of Engineering and Technology
Fringe Events, Sunday
18.30
The ICC: Hall 6A
Science Fiction or Economic Reality:
Will innovation deliver a globally Arts Council England
competitive future? Ikon Gallery (Brindley Place)
Speakers: Robin McGill, Chief Executive The Art of Philanthropy
IET (tbc); Jessica Prendergrast Social Speakers: Jeremy Hunt MP, Shadow
Market Foundation (Chair) Secretary of State for Culture, Media and
(Refreshments available) Sport; Alan Davey, Chief Executive Arts
Council England
The British Library and Liberty (Refreshments available)
Hyatt Regency: Allegro
Freedoms and Rights, Common Values: Hansard Society and Channel 4
A debate on the struggle for rights Copthorne Hotel (Paradise Place):
in Britain Jubilee and Kohinoor Rooms
(Refreshments available) People Like Us: Is British society fairly
reflected in Parliament?
The Observer Speakers: Iain Dale Total Politics;
The ICC: Hall 5 Rt Hon Theresa May MP, Shadow Leader
The Observer Interview: Andrew of the House of Commons and Shadow
Rawnsley our Chief Political Minister for Women; Eleanor Laing MP,
Commentator interviews Eric Pickles MP, Shadow Minister for Justice;
Shadow Secretary of State for Julie Kirkbride MP; Baroness Warsi,
Communities and Local Government Shadow Minister for Community
(Refreshments available) Cohesion and Social Action; Katie Razzall
Channel 4 News (Chair)
Virgin Media and Policy Exchange (Refreshments available)
Jury's Inn (Broad Street)
The Digital Dividend: Reaping the
economic, social and cultural benefits of
a connected country
Speakers: Kip Meek, Chairman
Broadband Stakeholder Group;
Natalie Evans, Deputy Director Policy
Exchange (Chair); Dominc Morris Ofcom
(Refreshments available)
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19.30
Citizens Advice Edward McMillan-Scott MEP, Vice
The ICC: Hall 10B President of the European Parliament
Reception The ICC: Exec Room 7
Speakers: Stephen Hammond MP, Vice Countering the Democratic Backlash
Chair Citizens Advice APPG; David Harker, From China and Russia
Chief Executive Citizens Advice Speaker: Edward McMillon-Scott MEP (Chair)
(All welcome) (Refreshments available) (Refreshments available)
Climate Clinic Health Hotel and King's Fund
Climate Clinic at Regency Wharf The ICC: Hall 11A
(behind Hyatt Regency) Question Time Debate
Renewables or `Clean' Coal? Speaker: Stephen Dorrell MP
Speakers: Jonathan Leake, Environment (Refreshments available)
Tuesday
Editor Sunday Times (Chair);
Fringe Events, Sunday
Greg Barker MP, Shadow Minister for the Local Government Association
Environment (tbc); Jeremy Leggett, The ICC: Symphony Hall Foyer
Executive Chairman Solar Century; Level 4
Dr Paul Golby, Chief Executive E.ON UK The Local Government Reception
(Refreshments available) Speaker: Cllr David Shakespeare OBE,
Leader LGA Conservative Group
Conservative International
Development Team National Union of Teachers
Austin Court (Cambridge Street): The ICC: Symphony Hall Foyer
Telford Room Level 5
Jon Snow Interviews Andrew Mitchell MP NUT Fish & Chip Supper Reception
on Britain's Development Policy Under (Refreshments available)
the Conservatives
Speakers: Jon Snow; Andrew Mitchell MP, NWDA (North West Development
Shadow Secretary of State for Agency) and Manchester Enterprise
International Development Hyatt Regency: Sonata
(Refreshments available) The Future of Manchester
Speakers: tbc
Conservative Muslim Forum (Refreshments available)
The ICC: Hall 11B
tbc Scope, Mencap and Age
Speakers: Dominic Grieve QC MP Concern England
Shadow Home Secretary (tbc) 18.30 The ICC: Hall 9
Meet in Hall 11 Foyer for Iftari Rights Not Write Off! What disabled and
older people want from social care
CRU Investments Speakers: Stephen O'Brien MP, Shadow
The ICC: Hall 7 Minister for Health; Alice Maynard,
Joined Up Thinking to Resolve Global Chair Scope; Patrick South, Head of
Food Security Public Affairs Age Concern England;
Speakers: John McGuire, CEO CRU Dame Jo Williams OBE, Chief
Investments; President Bingu Wa Mutharika Executive Mencap
President of Malawi (tbc) (Refreshments available)
(Refreshments available)
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19.30 19.45
The Bow Group Coalition for Young People
The ICC: Media Suite A Birmingham Rep Theatre:
Can We Still Afford to Go Green? St Paul's Suite
Speakers: Lord Nigel Lawson House of Celebration of Young People
Lords (Former Chancellor of the Speakers: Yvonne Roberts, Journalist
Exchequer); Prof Philip Stott, Professor (Chair); Prof Sir Al Aynsley-Green,
Emeritus University of London; Nick Children's Commisioner for England;
Hurd MP, Assistant Chief Whip Tim Loughton MP, Shadow Minister
(Refreshments available) for Children
(Refreshments available)
The Enterprise Forum
20.00
The ICC: Café Vite
Annual Conference Reception
Tuesday
Speakers: tbc
Fringe Events, Sunday
Northern Ireland Conservatives
(Refreshments available) Hyatt Regency: Concerto
Northern Ireland Fringe Event
The Equality & Human Speakers: Owen Paterson MP, Shadow
Rights Commission Secretary of State for Northern Ireland;
The ICC: Hall 8B Rt Hon The Lord Trimble of Lisnagarvey
Equality For All: A conversation with in the County of Antrim; Other speakers
Trevor Phillips and special guests tbc. (There will be an update on recent
Speaker: Trevor Phillips, Chair The developments in the Province followed
Equality & Human Rights Commission by a Q&A)
(Hot buffet & drinks provided) (Refreshments available)
The Work Foundation and Bupa
The ICC: Exec Room 1
Healthy, Wealthy and Wise: Wellness and
21.30
its importance in the workplace Conservative Middle East Council
Speakers: Stephen O'Brien MP, Shadow The ICC: Media Suite
Health Minister (tbc); Stephen Bevan, Conservative Middle East Council
Managing Director The Work Foundation; Drinks Party
Andrew Vallance-Owen, Group Medical Details: Invitation only and live music
Director Bupa (Refreshments available)
(Refreshments available)
Open Europe
Vodafone Hyatt Regency: Soprano
The ICC: Hall 10A Beers of Europe Reception
Teachers vs Young Techies: Who's (Refreshments available)
in charge?
(Refreshments available)
23.00
Young Britons Foundation Tory Reform Group
The ICC: Hall 8A Hotel Du Vin: Cellar Bar
New Homes, More Transport? Midnight Cocktail Party
Speakers: Colin Banyard, Chairman Speakers: Steve Norris, Patron Tory
Kilbride Group; Donal Blaney, Chief Reform Group. Event until 01.00
Executive YBF; Member of Parliament (Complimentary cocktails on arrival then
guest (tbc) cash bar)
(Refreshments available)
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