EXCLUSIVE: As @ofgem announce another huge rise to the #energy #pricecap we reveal the scale of the ‘revolving door’ between major energy firms and key government posts. opendemocracy.net/en/ofgem-energ…
Among those given key roles in UK energy policy are a former British Gas director who is now responsible for setting the energy price cap at Ofgem, the UK’s energy regulator, and a non-executive director at the business department who remains a board chairman at energy giant BP.
At least 10 other senior officials have been recruited to top roles at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) from the oil and energy sectors.
They include a former lobbyist – and a former policy manager at an energy industry lobby group that campaigned against a windfall tax.
Five current top BEIS staff members, including departmental heads responsible for wholesale electricity markets and carbon emissions trading, were hired directly from Shell.
Susan Hawley from @EndCorruptionUK said: “The risk with a badly regulated revolving door and poorly managed conflicts of interest is that big energy businesses essentially get to sway government policy in their favour through the back door."
“The UK's framework for managing how the private sector embeds itself in government departments and regulators is broken and needs an urgent upgrade to protect the public interest in government decision-making.”
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