Thursday, 5 February 2026

The Clerk: I table a letter from the Attorney-General dated 3 February 2026 in response to a resolution of the Council on 22 March 2023 on the motion of Dr Mansfield, and further to the government’s initial response on 2 May 2023, relating to the Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain project. The letter states that due to the broad scope of the order the government have focused its response on producing documents which are briefings and consultant reports and that attempting to respond to the full scope of the order would have unreasonably diverted resources and incurred significant costs. The government has identified 103 documents within the scope of the order and makes a claim of executive privilege over 37 documents in part and 30 documents in full. I further table 36 documents in full, 37 documents in part and schedules of the identified documents.