Member

The creation of Great British Energy offers a vital opportunity to anchor resilience into the heart of our energy transition. Its chair, Jürgen Maier CBE, said to me in a conversation yesterday that GBE is “entirely comfortable” with this amendment—the government amendment before us today—and “will put measures in place to prevent slavery”. He said, “We are a publicly owned company, and we have to live up to that. So we are comfortable and committed to this amendment. We will have to allocate resources and will do so”. Incidentally, I was also deeply encouraged by his determination to bring technology to the UK which, for instance, will enable battery manufacturing which is not dependent on lithium or rare earth minerals.