UK EITI Contract & Licence Transparency subgroup meeting note, 9th April 2025

Mike Earp (NSTA)                                          Johann MacDougall (Scottish Government)            

Mark Wilson (DfE)                                          Hedi Zaghouani (BDO)                                    

Mike Nash (UK EITI Secretariat, Chair)         

Legal barriers paper

• It was agreed that the legal barriers paper should be circulated to the MSG for consideration under a covering email.
• The paper should be updated to highlight that the majority of contract and licence data is currently disclosed and that concerns raised about legal barriers, and commercial confidentiality only affects some licensing authorities.
• The MSG to consider action plans to take this work forward.

(Action: UK EITI Secretariat and BDO to update paper and UK EITI Secretariat to draft email for subgroup approval)

Website updates

All subgroup members are asked to check their entries on the UK EITI website “Contract and Licence Transparency” section to make sure they are up-to-date for the validation and send any updates to the UK EITI Secretariat.

(Action: UK EITI Contract & Licence subgroup and UK EITI Secretariat).

AOB

It was agreed that there was no need for a further subgroup meeting at this stage and all work can be carried out by email.