The Environmental Audit Committee inquiry will focus on the sustainability of the Government’s estate and procurement processes and what action it needs to take to achieve its net zero emissions target by 2050 or sooner. It will incorporate the work previously conducted on the Greening Government Commitments inquiry.
Witnesses Sam Ulyatt, Buildings Pillar Director, Crown Commercial Services, Janet Young, Government Chief Property Officer, Office for Government Property, and Gareth Rhys Williams, Chief Commercial Officer, Government Commercial Function; Rt Hon Kwasi Kwarteng, Minister of State for Business, Energy and Clean Growth, and Simon Hart, Minister for Implementation, Cabinet Office (at 11:15am).
Witnesses Carl von Reibnitz, Sustainability Director, Barry Hooper, Chief Commercial Officer, and Clive Beard, Programmes Director, Prisons Estate Maintenance and Improvement, Ministry of Justice, and Dr Rossa Donovan, Head of Environment and Sustainable Development, Network Rail; Professor Jim Watson, Professor of Energy Policy, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources and Director, UK Energy Research Centre, Julie Hirigoyen, Chief Executive, UK Green Building Council, Dr Rebecca Willis, Research Fellow, University of Exeter, and Dr Joanne Wade, Deputy Director, Association for Decentralised Energy (at 11.15am).