Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum

Charles Small

City region transport and regional connectivity - funding, collaboration and project delivery

Morning, Wednesday, 10^th July 2019
Congress Centre, 28 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS

Keynote Speakers: Martin Tedder, Strategic Spatial Planning Manager, Transport for London and Charles Small, Senior Policy Adviser, English Devolution, Department for Transport

The future of the UK gas network: infrastructure, decarbonisation and energy security

Morning, Tuesday, 16^th July 2019
Central London

Keynote Speaker: David Joffe, Team Leader, Economy-Wide Analysis, Committee on Climate Change

David Black

England’s water market - investment, innovation, infrastructure and costs for end users

Morning, Thursday, 18^th July 2019
Central London

Keynote Speaker: David Black, Senior Director, Water 2020, Ofwat

Neil Fulton

Low emission vehicles in the UK: infrastructure, uptake and the ‘Road to Zero Strategy’

Morning, Thursday, 18^th July 2019
Central London

Keynote Speaker: Neil Fulton, Chief Operating Officer, Connected Places Catapult

Local energy in the UK - finance, regulation and developing smart and flexible networks

Morning, Thursday, 5^th September 2019
Central London

Keynote Speakers: Patrick Allcorn, Head of Local Energy, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy; Rob Saunders, Deputy Challenge Director, Prospering from the Energy Revolution, Innovate UK; Emma Bridge, Chief Executive Officer, Community Energy England and Mark Futyan, Distributed Power Systems Director, Centrica

Jim O’Sullivan

England’s road network - investment, development and delivering RIS2

Morning, Tuesday, 10^th September 2019
Central London

Keynote Speakers: Richard Coates, Deputy Director, Highways, Office of Rail and Road and Jim O’Sullivan, Chief Executive Officer, Highways England

Tom Greatrex

The UK nuclear industry - prospects for new build developments, project financing and supporting innovative technology

Morning, Tuesday, 15^th October 2019
Central London

Keynote Speaker: Tom Greatrex, Chief Executive, Nuclear Industry Association

Next steps for UK rail infrastructure - delivering CP6, impact of the Williams Rail Review and priorities for users

Morning, Friday, 15^th November 2019
Central London

Climate adaptation in the UK: latest on developing resilient infrastructure, channeling investment and environmental protection

Morning, Tuesday, 19^th November 2019
Central London

Keynote Speaker: Baroness Brown of Cambridge, Chair, Adaptation Sub-Committee, Committee on Climate Change

Charles Phillips

Electricity Market Reform - the Capacity Market, Contracts for Difference and the Energy White Paper

Morning, Tuesday, 26^th November 2019
Central London

Keynote Speakers: Cathryn Scott, Director, Wholesale Markets and Commercial, Ofgem; Mike Thompson, Head of Carbon Budgets, Committee on Climate Change ; Neil McDermott, Chief Executive, Low Carbon Contracts Company and Charles Phillips, Head, Capacity Market, BEIS

Reducing avoidable plastic waste - incentives, targets, and policy priorities

Morning, Tuesday, 3^rd December 2019
Central London

Completing Crossrail and priorities for moving forward Crossrail 2

Morning, Tuesday, 10^th December 2019
Central London

From the Policy Forum for London

Keynote Speakers: Chris Curtis, Head of Crossrail 2, Network Rail and Dr Michele Dix, Managing Director, Crossrail 2, Transport for London

In Production

The Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum is planning a very full programme for the next 12 months.

Please give us a ring on 01344 864796 or email email info@forumsupport.co.uk to discuss future conferences.

We'd be happy to share ideas on areas to focus on, speaker suggestions, and other ways of getting involved.

Parliamentary Patrons of the Forum

The parliamentary patrons of the Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum are:

Peter Aldous MP

Rt Hon Richard Benyon MP

Luciana Berger MP

Lord Berkeley

Lord Bradshaw

Alan Brown MP

Richard Burden MP

Dawn Butler MP

Ruth Cadbury MP

Christopher Chope MP

Ronnie Cowan MP

Rt Hon Stephen Crabb MP

Geraint Davies MP

Glyn Davies MP

Nadine Dorries MP

Lord Dubs

Clive Efford MP

Paul Farrelly MP

Barry Gardiner MP

Andrew Gwynne MP

Stephen Hammond MP

Viscount Hanworth

Sue Hayman MP

Drew Hendry MP

Kelvin Hopkins MP

Baroness Howe of Idlicote

Rt Hon the Lord Howell of Guildford

Lord Kirkhope of Harrogate

Rt Hon the Baroness Kramer

Eleanor Laing MP

Rt Hon Norman Lamb MP

Jeremy Lefroy MP

Ian Liddell-Grainger MP

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

John McNally MP

Rt Hon the Lord McNally

Caroline Nokes MP

Baroness O’Cathain

Lord O’Neill of Clackmannan

Lord Oxburgh

Mark Pawsey MP

Christopher Pincher MP

Lord Redesdale

Baroness Scott of Needham Market

Gavin Shuker MP

Angela Smith MP

Alex Sobel MP

Rt Hon the Lord Steel of Aikwood

Paul Sweeney MP

Rt Hon the Lord Taylor of Holbeach

Lord Teverson

Derek Thomas MP

Lord Truscott of St James’s in the City of Westminster

Baroness Verma

Dr Alan Whitehead MP

Rt Hon the Lord Whitty

Note: parliamentary patrons take no financial interest in the Forum.

Core Sponsors

The core sponsors of the Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum are AECOM, Burges Salmon and Institution of Mechanical Engineers.