The Environmental Audit Committee called for written evidence on the role of HM Treasury in relation to sustainable development and environmental protection in December 2015.
It also called for additional written evidence on HM Treasury’s contribution to meeting waste and recycling targets to help inform its inquiry into sustainability and HM Treasury.
Witnesses Lord Deben, Chair, and Matthew Bell, Chief Executive, Committee on Climate Change; Matthew Knight, Business Development Director, Siemens, and Barbara Vest, Director of Generation, Energy UK (at 10.45am); Estelle Brachlianoff, Senior Executive, Vice-President UK and Ireland, Veolia, Jerry McLaughlin, Director, Economics and Public Affairs, Mineral Products Association, and Dan Cooke, Director of Communications and External Affairs, Viridor and Chairman of Communications Committee, Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (at 11.15am).
Witnesses Jane Ellison MP, Financial Secretary, Susan Acland-Hood, Director, Enterprise and Growth Unit, and Neil Kenward, Deputy Director, Energy Environment and Agriculture, HMT
Witnesses Karen Ellis, Chief Adviser on Economics and Development, WWF, Dimitri Zenghelis, Co-Head Climate Policy, LSE, Claire Jakobsson, Head of Energy and Environment Policy, EEF, Rob Lambe, Managing Director, Energy Services at Willmot Dixon, Michael Jacobs, Visiting Professor at the School of Public Policy, UCL and the Grantham Research Institute, LSE