Oral evidence transcripts

Inquiry Leaving the EU: negotiation priorities for energy and climate change policy inquiry

Witnesses Sara Vaughan, Strategy and Corporate Affairs Director, E.ON UK, John Lanchbery, Principal Climate Advisor, The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Andrew McDermott, Technical Director, British Ceramic Confederation, and Dr William Kyte OBE, International Emissions Trading Association Fellow, IETA; Philip Sellwood, Chief Executive, Energy Saving Trust, Isaac Occhipinti, Head of External Affairs, Energy and Utilities Alliance, Stew Horne, Energy Regulations Principal Policy Manager, Citizens Advice, and Joanne Wade, Vice President, European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (at 10.30am).

Inquiry Leaving the EU: negotiation priorities for energy and climate change policy inquiry

Witnesses Paul Hallas, Regulation and Strategy Director, Centrica, Kevin Dibble, Director of Strategy and Communications, Engie UK, Phil Sheppard, Director of System Operations, National Grid, Ian Graves, Director of Business Development, National Grid, and Martijn van Gemert, Electricity Committee Member, European Federation of Energy Traders (at 10.30am).

Inquiry The CMA's investigation of the UK energy market

Witnesses Simeon Thornton, Project Director, Competition and Markets Authority, Susannah Meeke, Remedies Director, Competition and Markets Authority, Victoria MacGregor, Director of Energy, Citizens Advice Bureau, Pete Moorey, Head of Campaigns, Which?Greg Jackson, Chief Executive, Octopus Energy, Simon Stacey, Managing Director of Domestic Markets, Npower, Dan Hopcroft, Residential Sales Director, EDF, Ed Kamm, UK Managing Director, First Utility

Inquiry Corporate Governance inquiry

Witnesses Baroness Sarah Hogg, Tom Gosling, Partner, PWC, Simon Fraser, Chair, Investor ForumKen Olisa, Deputy Chairman, Institute of Directors, Andrew Ninian, Director, Corporate Governance Engagement, Investment Association, Sir Philip Hampton, Chair, Hampton-Alexander Review

Inquiry Corporate Governance inquiry

Witnesses Denise Wilson, CEO, Hampton/Alexander Review, Tom Shropshire, Steering Committee, Parker Review, Rowena Ironside, Founder and Chair, Women on Boards UK, Edward Speed, Global Chairman, Spencer Stuart, Laurie Fitzjohn-Sykes, Head of Research, Tomorrow’s CompanyNigel Wilson, CEO, Legal & General Group, Mick Barker, Group Employee Director, FirstGroup, Tim O’Toole, CEO (and Board Member), FirstGroup, Frances O’Grady, General Secretary, Trade Union Congress

Inquiry Outcomes of Marrakech COP22 one-off evidence session

Witnesses Mr Nick Hurd MP, Minister of State for Climate Change and Industry, Archie Young, Head of International Negotiation, Department for Business, and Emma Bulmer, Deputy Director of the Carbon Budgets Team, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

Inquiry Work of Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy 2016–17

Witnesses The Rt Hon Greg Clark MP, Secretary of State, Gareth Davies, Director General, Business and Science, and Jeremy Pocklington, Director General, Energy and Security, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

Inquiry Industrial strategy inquiry

Witnesses Rhian Kelly, Director for Infrastructure, CBI, Ashley Shackleton, Head of Public Affairs, British Chambers of Commerce, Lee Hopley, Chief Economist, EEF, Stephen Pattison, Vice-President Public Affairs, ARM Holdings, Alex Brummer, City Editor, Daily Mail, Mariana Mazzucato, RM Phillips Professorship in the Economics of Innovation, University of Sussex, Paul Nowak, Deputy General Secretary, TUC, Paul Kahn, President, Airbus UK, Simon Walker, Director General, Institute of Directors, Mark Littlewood, Director General, Institute of Economic Affairs

Inquiry Industrial strategy inquiry

Witnesses Edward Twiddy, Chief Information Officer, AtomBank, Jane Mee, General Counsel, Hitachi Rail Europe, Dr Jennifer Thomson, Head of Business Development, Durham UniversityJames Ramsbotham, Chief Executive, North East Chamber of Commerce, Graham Robb, Chief Executive, Recognition PR and Chair, North East Institute of Directors, John Elliott, Chairman, Ebac GroupNigel Foster, Director of Strategy, Transport for the North, Councillor Iain Malcolm, North East Combined Authority, Andrew Lewis, Managing Director, Tees Valley Combined Authority, Anna Round, Senior Research Fellow, IPPR North

Inquiry Corporate Governance inquiry

Witnesses Amra Balic, Managing Director, BlackRock, Sir John Hood, Chair of Compensation Committee, WPP, Jan du Plessis, Chair, Rio Tinto, Helena Morrissey, Executive Remuneration Working Group, The Investment AssociationDr Hans-Christoph Hirt, Executive Director, Hermes, Stefan Stern, Director, High Pay Centre, Professor Charlotte Villiers, Professor of Company Law and Corporate Governance, University of Bristol Law School, Andrew Page, Partner, New Bridge Street

Inquiry Corporate Governance inquiry

Witnesses Professor Vanessa Knapp, Queen Mary University of London; Elizabeth Wall, City of London Law Society; Catherine Howarth, Chief Executive, ShareAction; Paul Lee, Head of Corporate Governance, Aberdeen Asset Management; Cliff Weight, Director, ShareSoc; Sarah Wilson, Chief Executive, Manifest; Kerrie Waring, Executive Director, International Corporate Governance Network

Inquiry Corporate Governance inquiry

Witnesses Janet Williamson, Senior Policy Officer, Economics and Social Affairs Department, Trades Union Congress, Oliver Parry, Head of Corporate Governance, Institute of Directors, Stephen Haddrill, Chief Executive Officer, Financial Reporting CouncilAlex Edmans, Professor of Finance, London Business School, Mike Everett, Governance and Stewardship Director, Standard Life Investments, Peter Montagnon, Institute of Business Ethics, Jonathan Chamberlain, Employment Lawyers Association

Inquiry Industrial strategy inquiry

Witnesses Kevin Baughan, Chief Development Officer, Innovate UK, Celia Caulcott, Vice-Provost (Enterprise), University College London, John Latham, Chair of University Alliance & Vice Chancellor of Coventry University, Sarah Main, Director, Campaign for Science & EngineeringStephen Ibbotson, Director of Business, Institute of Chartered Accountants for England and Wales, Stephen Tarr, Managing Director (Projects), Balfour Beatty, Ben Wilmott, head of Public Policy, Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD)

Inquiry Industrial strategy inquiry

Witnesses Hamid Mughal, Director of Global Manufacturing, Rolls-Royce, Professor David Greenwood, Warwick Manufacturing GroupCouncillor Bob Sleigh, Leader of Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council, and Chair, Westmidlands Combined Authority, Matthew Rhodes, Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership, Jonathan Browning, Chair, Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise PartnershipAndy Palmer, Chief Executive, Aston Martin, David Bailey, Professor of Industrial Strategy, Aston Business School, Tony Burke, Assistant General for Manufacturing, Unite

Inquiry Work of Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy 2016–17

Witnesses Alex Chisholm, Permanent Secretary, Angie Ridgwell, Director General for Finance and Corporate Services, Doug Watkins, Director, Human Resources, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Inquiry Industrial strategy inquiry

Witnesses Rt Hon Sir Vince Cable, Rt Hon George Osborne MP and Rt Hon Lord Heseltine