Barratt Developments PLC – Lobbying Governance & Transparency

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Lobbying Governance

Overall Assessment	Analysis	Score
Strong	Barratt Developments PLC has established a structured governance framework to ensure its lobbying activities align with its climate change strategy, with executive-level oversight by the Board, CEO and Executive Committee. “With oversight and support from the Board, the CEO and Executive Committee are accountable for ensuring that policy engagement aligns with the Group’s climate change policy and Building Sustainably framework,” and the Sustainability and Corporate Affairs team “develop agreed policy priorities and engagement plans, which are reviewed annually but flexed and adjusted as the situation changes.” These plans are communicated to senior leaders via a quarterly Core Brief, and “activities that may influence policy are only conducted by company personnel who are aware of the group’s overall climate change strategy,” ensuring all direct engagement reflects the company’s climate positions. Barratt also manages indirect lobbying through industry bodies, noting that “sometimes carefully selected industry bodies, which we have joined such as the Home Builders Federation or UK Green Building Council may make a representation on behalf of their collective memberships” and that “these bodies approach Barratt before making such representations to take on board our views and policies,” with the company committing to submit its own representation if its position differs. Engagement activity and outcomes are systematically tracked “via shared calendars, engagement trackers and reported to the Board via the Sustainability (quarterly) and the CEO report (monthly),” and the underlying climate policy “is reviewed annually and is approved by the Group Board.” While these processes reflect clear monitoring and accountability, we found no evidence of a publicly available climate-lobbying audit or third-party review, and the company does not disclose specific criteria for ongoing association membership when positions may conflict with its climate objectives. View Sources	B

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Strong

Barratt Developments PLC has established a structured governance framework to ensure its lobbying activities align with its climate change strategy, with executive-level oversight by the Board, CEO and Executive Committee. “With oversight and support from the Board, the CEO and Executive Committee are accountable for ensuring that policy engagement aligns with the Group’s climate change policy and Building Sustainably framework,” and the Sustainability and Corporate Affairs team “develop agreed policy priorities and engagement plans, which are reviewed annually but flexed and adjusted as the situation changes.” These plans are communicated to senior leaders via a quarterly Core Brief, and “activities that may influence policy are only conducted by company personnel who are aware of the group’s overall climate change strategy,” ensuring all direct engagement reflects the company’s climate positions. Barratt also manages indirect lobbying through industry bodies, noting that “sometimes carefully selected industry bodies, which we have joined such as the Home Builders Federation or UK Green Building Council may make a representation on behalf of their collective memberships” and that “these bodies approach Barratt before making such representations to take on board our views and policies,” with the company committing to submit its own representation if its position differs. Engagement activity and outcomes are systematically tracked “via shared calendars, engagement trackers and reported to the Board via the Sustainability (quarterly) and the CEO report (monthly),” and the underlying climate policy “is reviewed annually and is approved by the Group Board.” While these processes reflect clear monitoring and accountability, we found no evidence of a publicly available climate-lobbying audit or third-party review, and the company does not disclose specific criteria for ongoing association membership when positions may conflict with its climate objectives.

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Lobbying Transparency

Overall Assessment	Analysis	Score
Comprehensive	Barratt Developments PLC discloses climate-policy lobbying with a high degree of detail and clarity. It names multiple specific policies it has engaged on, including the Future Homes Standard, Part L and Part S of the Building Regulations, the Biodiversity Net Gain Regulations, the Environment Bill, the Heat and Buildings Strategy and the UK Net Zero targets, describing the focus of each measure and its relevance to the house-building sector. The company also sets out the means by which it seeks to influence these measures: it records direct meetings with ministers and officials at DLUHC, BEIS, DEFRA and other departments, site visits for MPs, evidence submissions and consultation responses, participation in cross-party groups such as the Net Zero APPG, and indirect lobbying through industry bodies like the Home Builders Federation, the Construction Leadership Council and the Future Homes Hub, which its Chief Executive chairs. Throughout the disclosures Barratt is clear about the ends it is pursuing—supporting “both the changes to Part L as well as the Future Homes Standard,” advocating “a long-term, interconnected road map that goes all the way to net zero,” backing Part S EV-charging provisions “as part of our commitment to leading the industry on sustainability,” calling for a 15 % reduction in UK energy demand by 2030, and backing biodiversity-net-gain rules “with no exceptions.” This combination of specific policy references, well-defined engagement channels and explicit, measurable objectives demonstrates comprehensive transparency around the company’s climate-related lobbying activities.	A