Ocado Group PLC – Lobbying Governance & Transparency

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Lobbying Governance

Overall Assessment	Analysis	Score
Strong	Ocado Group PLC has established a defined governance process to ensure its climate-related engagement activities, including direct and indirect lobbying, align with its overall climate-change strategy. The company explains that "Our Head of Corporate Responsibility and Corporate Affairs, reporting directly to a Board member, regularly engages with external bodies who directly or indirectly influence climate-related policy," demonstrating a named individual with senior oversight. It further describes that "the Head of Corporate Responsibility has regular internal meetings regarding business strategy, where relevant policies and regulations are represented," and that "subsequent departmental meetings take place as required to support work resulting from policy changes," which provides a clear monitoring mechanism. The creation of "our new carbon steering committee and corporate responsibility strategy" and accompanying "regular update meetings ... to ensure that all are aligned and significant progress continues" indicates active processes for managing both direct advocacy and indirect engagement through trade or industry channels. We found no evidence of a public commitment or position statement to conduct engagement activities in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement. View Sources	B

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Strong

Ocado Group PLC has established a defined governance process to ensure its climate-related engagement activities, including direct and indirect lobbying, align with its overall climate-change strategy. The company explains that "Our Head of Corporate Responsibility and Corporate Affairs, reporting directly to a Board member, regularly engages with external bodies who directly or indirectly influence climate-related policy," demonstrating a named individual with senior oversight. It further describes that "the Head of Corporate Responsibility has regular internal meetings regarding business strategy, where relevant policies and regulations are represented," and that "subsequent departmental meetings take place as required to support work resulting from policy changes," which provides a clear monitoring mechanism. The creation of "our new carbon steering committee and corporate responsibility strategy" and accompanying "regular update meetings ... to ensure that all are aligned and significant progress continues" indicates active processes for managing both direct advocacy and indirect engagement through trade or industry channels. We found no evidence of a public commitment or position statement to conduct engagement activities in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Lobbying Transparency

Overall Assessment	Analysis	Score
Limited	Ocado provides only limited detail on its climate-related lobbying. It identifies one concrete policy engagement – the five-year trial of the European Commission’s derogation for electric-vehicle driving licences – and notes a meeting with the UK Government’s Net Zero Business Champion, but no other specific legislation is named. The company is somewhat clearer about how it lobbies, disclosing that it "engaged directly" with the European Commission and that its chairman and general counsel met face-to-face with the UK official, thereby revealing both the mechanism (direct meetings) and the institutional targets. On the outcomes it seeks, Ocado explains that it wants to "understand the renewal process for the driving licence derogation" because the expiry of that exemption would force costly driver retraining and could make its electric-vehicle operations uneconomic; beyond this single objective, it gives only broad statements about its ambition to be net-zero by 2040 without linking that ambition to specific policy changes. Together, these disclosures show some transparency on mechanisms and a single policy focus, but they stop short of a fuller explanation of the range of policies Ocado influences or the detailed results it is pursuing.	D