Member

I agree absolutely with the spirit of the amendment of the noble Baroness, Lady Bloomfield, on biodiversity, but I say again to the Minister, as I did briefly in a previous Committee sitting, that what I see as essential and what I am used to in working with the Green Investment Group since its privatisation is that there needs to be a strong external audit of individual investments in terms of their carbon reduction and protection or promotion of biodiversity. Again, that should not be in the Bill, but it is something that I would hope very much the board of Great British Energy would insist on—if nothing else for its corporate reputation.