ESNZ Committee holds stakeholder engagement event to help set inquiry priorities
4 July 2023
Stakeholders and organisations from across the energy and environment sectors met MPs last week to help inform the new Energy Security and Net Zero Committee’s work.
The engagement event in Parliament gave more than 50 companies and organisations the chance to pitch ideas for inquiries to members of the Committee, which is scrutinising the Government’s approach to securing the UK’s energy supply and cutting emissions.
Chair comment
Angus Brendan MacNeil MP, Chair of the ESNZ Committee, said:
“The engagement event was an invaluable opportunity to hear differing perspectives from a whole spectrum of organisations on how to meet the challenges of securing our energy supplies while moving towards net zero. Effective scrutiny relies on taking on as wide a range of views as possible and the experience will be vital to the Committee as we set our programme of work and decide on inquiries in the coming weeks and months.”
The ESNZ Committee was set up following the Government’s decision to establish a new Department for Energy Security and Net Zero as part of changes to the machinery of government.