Could Westminster face dearth of energy and climate scrutiny with new select committee set up?
The scrapping of DECC was understandably followed by the disbanding of the parliamentary committee which scrutinised it, but could this lead to a hole in scrutiny of energy and climate change policies?
In July this year, then-new prime minister Theresa May confirmed she was scrapping the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and adding its remit to the business department to form a new Department...
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