The House of Lords International
Agreements Committee will tomorrow be
holding two evidence sessions on
the UK's re-accession to the UN Industrial
Development Organisation (UNIDO).
UNIDO is a UN agency focused on
promoting industrial development in developing countries. The UK
previously left UNIDO in 2012, citing concerns about the agency's
performance. A number of other countries left at around the same
time, including New Zealand, France, Portugal and Belgium. The
US, Canada and Australia had already left UNIDO in the 1990s.
However, the Government this year announced that it intended to
rejoin, and has laid the UNIDO constitution in Parliament for
scrutiny ahead of formally doing so.
The Committee will hear evidence
from UNIDO and Government officials as part of its
scrutiny of the UK's decision
to rejoin.
Giving evidence
at 2pm will
be:
-
Manuel
Mattiat, Director
and Chief of Cabinet, Office of the Chief of Cabinet, UN
Industrial
Development Organisation (UNIDO)
Giving evidence
at 2.40pm will be:
-
Matt
Toombs, Director
for International Net Zero, Climate Finance and Strategy,
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
(DESNZ)
Questions the committee is likely to
ask include:
The sessions will take place
on Tuesday 15 September and
can be followed live on Parliament TV.
