Organisation · GOV.UK transparency returns · Patrick McCall, Senior MD, Virgin Group Richard Scott, Exec Director, Virgin Trains Richard Branson, Founder, Virgin Group Mark Whitehouse, MD, Virgin Trains Phil Whittingham, MD, Virgin Trains

Patrick McCall, Senior MD, Virgin Group Richard Scott, Exec Director, Virgin Trains Richard Branson, Founder, Virgin Group Mark Whitehouse, MD, Virgin Trains Phil Whittingham, MD, Virgin Trains

Identity: organisation:govuk:Patrick McCall, Senior MD, Virgin Group Richard Scott, Exec Director, Virgin Trains Richard Branson, Founder, Virgin Group Mark Whitehouse, MD, Virgin Trains Phil Whittingham, MD, Virgin Trains — the GOV.UK transparency returns key, used as-is. No identity here is invented.
Graph built: 5 September 2026

Names in the records

Each spelling a register uses for this entity, and the method that tied it here. A name is never the identity; a similar name is never a match.

As published	Register	Tied by	Confidence	Rows
Patrick McCall, Senior MD, Virgin Group Richard Scott, Exec Director, Virgin Trains Richard Branson, Founder, Virgin Group Mark Whitehouse, MD, Virgin Trains Phil Whittingham, MD, Virgin Trains	GOV.UK transparency returns	exact name within one register	1.0	1

What the records establish

Patrick McCall, Senior MD, Virgin Group Richard Scott, Exec Director, Virgin Trains Richard Branson, Founder, Virgin Group Mark Whitehouse, MD, Virgin Trains Phil Whittingham, MD, Virgin Trains: 1 record of "recorded meeting with a minister" on 13 June 2018.

All 1 recorded relationships. Kind: FACT — every row is a register's own record; nothing on this page is computed.
Relationship	With	Date	Amount	Detail	Record
recorded meeting with a minister	Chris Grayling	13 June 2018	—		ministerial_meetings

What this does not establish

The records above establish that Patrick McCall, Senior MD, Virgin Group Richard Scott, Exec Director, Virgin Trains Richard Branson, Founder, Virgin Group Mark Whitehouse, MD, Virgin Trains Phil Whittingham, MD, Virgin Trains and each entity named appear together in an official register, in the relationship that register records, on the date it records. They do not establish why any donation was made, why any contract was awarded, whether any one record was known to the people behind another, or that any record caused another. No causal inference is made on this page, and nothing here is a finding of any kind against anyone. A reported donation is a lawful, reported transaction; a contract award is a published notice; a seat is a seat.

Derived from: ministerial_meetings. Each row above names the table and key it came from and links the official record where one exists. How the graph is built is described at the evidence graph.