Environmental Audit Committee

15 July 2026

Environmental Audit Committee House of Commons

00:06 - 00:42
Speaker 4
Order, order.  Well, welcome everybody to the latest meeting of the Environmental Audit Committee as part of the second of our panel sessions into the policies of the Treasury and their impact on the environment.  I'm very pleased to say that we have an excellent panel, three excellent panels to help us in our evidence gathering today.  I'm going to start by asking our panelists to just introduce themselves and their roles within their organizations and we will make a start, so starting with you if I can, Mr. Radcliffe. 
00:42 - 01:07
Speaker 6
Hi everyone, I'm Toby Radcliffe.  I'm a policy officer at the Aldersgate Group.  The Aldersgate Group is a membership organization.  Our members include some of the largest businesses in the UK and leading NGOs and we develop policy recommendations and we also make the advocate the business case for decarbonizing the UK economy, investing in adaptation and the environment. 
01:07 - 01:10
Speaker 1
Thank you very much, Mr. Josephs. 
01:10 - 01:33
Speaker 8
Yeah, thank you very much for the invitation to appear in front of the committee.  So I'm Tom Josephs.  I'm on the committee at the Office for Budget Responsibility.  I oversee our work on our fiscal analysis, fiscal forecasting and in particular have overseen work we've done on the long-term risks to the public finances from climate change. 

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