Minutes of Meeting on Wednesday 19th August 2025
Venue: Online via teams
Time: 16:00-18:00
Type: Panel Meeting
ATTENDEES:
Panel: Matthew Cole, Kirsten Jenkins, Alister Steele and Fraser Stewart
Secretariat: Philippa Brosnan and Roanna Sefton
AGENDA ITEM 1: Introductory Remarks
Matt welcomed everyone to the meeting. Also apologised as Philippa was running late and ran through the agenda.
AGENDA ITEM 2: Periodic Report Response
Matt started by saying thank you so much for the hard work in getting to this point in the document. The Panel reviewed the document looking at their comments and having a discussion on how they felt it was positioned and agreeing on how to input stakeholders feedback. The Panel agreed on the next steps for signing the response off and looking at different ways on how to promote the PPR. The panel agreed to have a final copy by the 28th August and ready for sign off.
AGENDA ITEM 3: Ofgem Consultation
Roanna ran through the OfGem consultation “Energy system cost allocation and recovery review” with the Panel. Roanna advised that the consultation on the 24th September 2025. The Panel spoke through on wether they could respond and about the other work commitments they have. The Panel felt this is something they need to respond but because of capacity challenges it will need to be a short response. The plan is to focus on the Panel’s social tariff recommendations, as they have done in previous consultation responses, and then include some high level principles on energy cost allocation and recovery. They are wanting to submit the consultation by the 5th of September 2025.
AGENDA ITEM 4: Intern
Roanna advised that the applications have now closed. Roanna advised that her professional group, the Office of the Chief Researcher and Scottish Government are reviewing applications and they will be allocated on skill set or preference and the Panel should hopefully find out by the end of the month if the Panel has an intern. The intern will still have to go through the SG internal like recruitment process. This hopefully they should be starting in October which means at the next meeting the Panel would need to discuss what project they would like the intern to be working on.
AGENDA ITEM 5: EAS conference
The Panel discussed attendance and taken part in the EAS conference. They decided that they would all be attending the conference on the 20th and 21st November 2025. Trisha will send a calendar hold out for the diaries.
AGENDA ITEM 6: Public Appointments’ Process – update & Induction – new Panel Members
Matt gave an update about the next stages of the recruitment process and asked the Panels view about the communication steps of introducing the new panel membersa and how they thought this might look.
AGENDA ITEM 7: Panel reflection
Matt invited reflections and then closed the meeting.
Next meeting– 6th of October 9;00 – 17:00pm at St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh.