On the 4th of September 2023 Barry attended an Enviornmental Audit Committee (EAC)’s polar research sub-committee.
In this session Barry questioned Minister of State for Science, Research and Innovation, George Freeman MP, on discrepency in facility costs between research centres in the Arctic and Antarctica and how much arctic research the USS David Attenborough (the ship that was nearly named Boaty McBoatface) is carrying out.
Freeman was “all ears” during Barry’s questioning, eagerly awaiting the recommendations of the Committee.