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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether BEIS Ministers (a) have had and (b) plan to have discussions with local government officials on UK-side infrastructure for an interconnector between the UK and Morocco.

Ministers’ meetings with external parties are published quarterly on the gov.uk website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/beis-ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings.

This may also include details of meetings with local Government officials, but otherwise the information requested is not held centrally and can only be provided at disproportionate cost. There are currently no plans for such discussions in relation to the Xlinks project (the proposal to import clean power from Morocco to the UK).