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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make it his policy to update Parliament on the proposed terms of any disposal of the Government's shares in the UK Green Investment Bank before such a sale is agreed.

The Government has set out its plans for the sale of the Green Investment Bank in the document “Green Investment Bank: sale of shares” laid before Parliament on 3 March 2016.

The sale process is commercially confidential and Government will not disclose details of our engagement with bidders. The Government has committed to lay a report before Parliament on the sale of the Green Investment Bank, as soon as reasonably practicable after a disposal of shares has taken place, and this is also a requirement in the Enterprise Act 2016.