Member

I declare my interests as set out in the register. I am chairman of Amey, which provides facilities and maintenance work for the public sector, including road and rail projects. That also covers some litter projects—which we will come on to in a moment, so I will declare my interest now—and EV work, which is central to our work for the Government. I was also Minister for the Environment in another place, with responsibility for litter campaigns, and the Minister for Energy in the early 1990s when we began the energy transition work which led to the development of electric vehicles relevant to the amendments we are considering. My intention is to draw on that experience to try and assist the Committee with its deliberations, since the amendments I am speaking to are important political priorities for the Government. I expect we will hear from the Government their support for the intentions of many of the amendments and will raise some of the practical challenges which we need to address, if not in this Bill then certainly in the near future.