Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department is engaged in any partnerships with the World Economic Forum.

Since November 2020, BEIS has been a member of the Global Futures Council on Agile Governance, focusing on the development of government regulatory practices to help drive economic growth.

In May this year, the UK became a government partner in the First Movers Coalition. This is an initiative launched by the United States with the WEF and is a coalition of more than 35 international companies committed to harness their purchasing power and supply chains to create early markets for innovative clean energy technologies.