The Royal Society of Chemistry Consultancy Group 28th AGM and Ordinary Meeting will take place on Wednesday 12th June at the Royal Society of Chemistry Burlington House, London. We have three excellent presentations planned for this year’s meeting including the all-important topic of Making Tax Digital for Business delivered by the Head of the Stakeholder department at HMRC (Ms Rebecca Hutton); a presentation around Brexit issues and Policy Development for the Chemical Industry from RSC’s Tanya Sheridan and something more technical on how REACH has affected innovation in the leather industry from Dr Victoria Addy, British Leather. We do hope you can join us! The cost is £30 and includes tea, coffee and biscuits and a hot buffet lunch with wine.
AGENDA
10:30 Registration. Tea and coffee will be available
11:00 Chairman’s Introduction
11.10 Chemistry and the UK’s future relationship with the EU: an RSC policy perspective, Tanya Sheridan, Policy and Evidence Manager at Royal Society of Chemistry
12:15 Lunch
13:30 Consultancy Group AGM
14:00 Making Tax Digital, Rebecca Hutton, Head of External Stakeholder Engagement, Making Tax Digital For Business, CREST Team, HMRC
15:00 Legislative Aspects of Leather Innovation Dr . Victoria Addy, Technical Director of Eurofin / BLC Leather Technology Centre.
16.00 Meeting Close
Speaker Biographies
Tanya Sheridan: She has been leading the RSC Policy and Evidence team since March 2018, who are responsible for preparing convincing cases to influence decision makers in areas that impact the chemical sciences. This includes responding in an agile way to emerging issues. Tanya has extensive experience of making and implementing policy. She has been a civil servant at the former Department of Trade and Industry and then the Department of Energy and Climate Change. She has developed policy on energy, employment law, EU, small business and industry with a focus on economic policy. Prior to this, she led economic and development programs at Cambridgeshire County Council.
Rebecca Hutton: She joined the Making Tax Digital team in 2018 where she works with stakeholders to ensure business and agents have all the information to comply with the new rules. Prior to this she worked at HMRC, firstly as a graduate trainee then as a Compliance Officer primarily in Corporation Tax. She then focussed on Oil and Gas companies and became the Business Unit Head responsible for mid size compliance teams across Scotland and the North East.
AGENDA
10:30 Registration. Tea and coffee will be available
11:00 Chairman’s Introduction
11.10 Chemistry and the UK’s future relationship with the EU: an RSC policy perspective, Tanya Sheridan, Policy and Evidence Manager at Royal Society of Chemistry
12:15 Lunch
13:30 Consultancy Group AGM
14:00 Making Tax Digital, Rebecca Hutton, Head of External Stakeholder Engagement, Making Tax Digital For Business, CREST Team, HMRC
15:00 Legislative Aspects of Leather Innovation Dr . Victoria Addy, Technical Director of Eurofin / BLC Leather Technology Centre.
16.00 Meeting Close
Speaker Biographies
Tanya Sheridan: She has been leading the RSC Policy and Evidence team since March 2018, who are responsible for preparing convincing cases to influence decision makers in areas that impact the chemical sciences. This includes responding in an agile way to emerging issues. Tanya has extensive experience of making and implementing policy. She has been a civil servant at the former Department of Trade and Industry and then the Department of Energy and Climate Change. She has developed policy on energy, employment law, EU, small business and industry with a focus on economic policy. Prior to this, she led economic and development programs at Cambridgeshire County Council.
Rebecca Hutton: She joined the Making Tax Digital team in 2018 where she works with stakeholders to ensure business and agents have all the information to comply with the new rules. Prior to this she worked at HMRC, firstly as a graduate trainee then as a Compliance Officer primarily in Corporation Tax. She then focussed on Oil and Gas companies and became the Business Unit Head responsible for mid size compliance teams across Scotland and the North East.
