Great British Energy Bill (First sitting)

Michael Shanks Excerpts

Committee stage
Tuesday 8th October 2024 Public Bill Committees

[Torcuil Crichton (Na h-Eileanan an Iar) (Lab)]

I am also a member of the GMB.

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero (Michael Shanks)]

I am also a member of the GMB.

[Uma Kumaran (Stratford and Bow) (Lab)]

I am also a member of the GMB.

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[The Chair]

Welcome to our fourth and final panel this morning. We will now hear oral evidence from Dan McGrail, CEO of RenewableUK, and Adam Berman, who is director of policy at Energy UK. For this session we have until 11.25 am. There are questions at 11.30 am in the Chamber—I have one myself.

[Michael Shanks]

I think a few of us have.

[The Chair]

A few of us have. Okay, if we finish early, we have more time to leg it over there. Please could the witnesses introduce themselves.

Dan McGrail: Good morning everybody, my name is Dan McGrail, I am the chief executive of RenewableUK, which is a trade association representing the wind industry predominantly, but also the tidal energy sector and crucially, the supply chain that sits within that. We have about 500 member companies across the UK and we work closely with devolved Administrations and national Government.

Adam Berman: Good morning. My name is Adam Berman, I am director of policy and advocacy at Energy UK, which represents the whole of the energy sector really, short of upstream oil and gas extraction—everything from all the forms of generation, right through the networks and into household level. We represent the retail energy suppliers as well.