Environmental Audit Committee launch inquiry into Green Investment Bank

• Environmental Audit Committee
• Watch The Meeting: Green Investment Bank

The MPs will be asking business groups, trade bodies and campaigners how the Bank should be set up – and what funding and governance structures need to be put in place to ensure it is effective and accountable.

Witnesses

At 2.30 pm

• Dr Gordon Edge, Director of Policy, RenewableUK;
• Philip Wolfe, Director, Aldersgate Group; and
• Chris Hewett, Associate, Green Alliance

At 3.30 pm approximately

• James Wilde, Director of Insights, Carbon Trust;
• Sir Rob Margetts, Chairman, Energy Technologies Institute; and
• Stuart Cook, Senior Partner, Smarter Grids and Governance, Ofgem (Low Carbon Network Fund)
  

The MPs will be asking questions on:

• The appropriate level of capitalisation – and whether the £1 billion pledged by the Government in the Spending Review is adequate.
• Green Bonds and Green ISAs
• The new Bank’s ability to leverage hundreds of billions of pounds in investment needed to kick start low-carbon growth. 

Further Information 

• Visiting Parliament: Watch Committees
• About Parliament: Select Committees