{"value":{"id":1168520,"memberId":4686,"member":null,"memberRole":"Parliamentary Under Secretary of State and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Climate Change)","uin":"HLWS7","dateMade":"2019-12-20T00:00:00","answeringBodyId":201,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy","title":"Post EU Energy Council update","text":"<p>My Right Honourable Friend, the Minister of State for Business, Energy and Clean Growth (Kwasi Kwarteng MP) has today made the following statement;</p><p> </p><p>The UK did not attend the EU Energy Council in Brussels on 4 December 2019.</p><p>The UK Government has decided that from 1 September until exit day, UK Ministers and officials will only attend EU meetings where the UK has a significant national interest in the outcome of the discussions.</p>","house":"Lords","noticeNumber":0,"hasAttachments":false,"hasLinkedStatements":false,"linkedStatements":null,"attachments":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/1168520","method":"GET"}]}