## Executive Summary
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### Purpose of the paper
The purpose of this paper is to provide an update on meetings held by the following UKEB Advisory Groups and Working Groups, to accompany the verbal updates given by their Chairs:
* Academic Advisory Group (Chair: Mike Wells)
* Accounting Firms and Institutes Advisory Group (Chair: Tony Clifford)
* Investor Advisory Group (Chair: Paul Lee)
* Preparer Advisory Group (Chair: Owen Glaysher)
* Rate-regulated Activities Technical Advisory Group (Chair: Phil Aspin)
* Financial Instruments Working Group (Chair: Seema Jamil-O'Neill)
* Sustainability Working Group (Chair: Seema Jamil-O'Neill)
### Summary of the Issue
All the groups, set out above, are advisory, consultative groups. They are not decision-making bodies. The advisory groups provide specialist knowledge and information as input into the Board's technical decision-making, while the working groups solely advise the UKEB Secretariat.
The Advisory Groups webpage of the UKEB website sets out the purpose of each group, a list of each group's members and their biographies, and a link to its Terms of Reference. In addition, minutes for each meeting are uploaded as they become available.
The table below also sets out the meetings held by these groups during the last 12 months and includes links to the meeting minutes, available at the time of writing.
Since the January 2026 Board meeting, the summary minutes of the Financial Instruments Working Group (FIWG) meeting, on 15 January 2026, have been published on the UKEB website.
The Investor Advisory Group (IAG) met, on 2 February 2026. The summary minutes of that meeting will be published in due course.
## Decisions for the Board
No decisions required.
## Recommendation
The Board is recommended to review the summary minutes of the groups' meetings.
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| Group | Meeting Date | Link to Minutes | Date of publication |
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| Academic Advisory Group | 25 April 2025 | Summary Minutes | 22 May 2025 |
| | 19 September 2025 | Summary Minutes | 17 October 2025 |
| Accounting Firms and Institutes Advisory Group | 11 March 2025 | Summary Minutes | 10 April 2025 |
| | 10 June 2025 | Summary Minutes | 9 July 2025 |
| | 11 November 2025 | Summary Minutes | 11 December 2025 |
| Investor Advisory Group | 2 June 2025 | Summary Minutes | 27 June 2025 |
| | 3 November 2025 | Summary Minutes | 2 December 2025 |
| | 2 February 2026 | To be published | (within 1 month) |
| Preparer Advisory Group | 3 March 2025 | Summary Minutes | 2 April 2025 |
| | 16 June 2025 | Summary Minutes | 14 July 2025 |
| | 20 October 2025 | Summary Minutes | 14 October 2025 |
| Rate-regulated Activities Technical Advisory Group | 16 June 2025 | Summary Minutes | 15 July 2025 |
| | 24 September 2025 | Summary Minutes | 22 October 2025 |
| | 12 December 2025 | Summary Minutes | 9 January 2026 |
| Financial Instruments Working Group | 1 April 2025 | Summary Minutes | 30 April 2025 |
| | 25 November 2025 | Summary Minutes | 19 December 2025 |
| | 15 January 2026 | Summary Minutes | 13 February 2026 |
| Sustainability Working Group | – | – | – |
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