Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Andrew Gwynne and Andrea Leadsom

Thursday 11th February 2016 Commons Chamber

[Andrea Leadsom]

As the hon. Lady will know, we have frequent conversations with Ministers in the devolved Parliaments and we try to ensure that they are included in all the discussions, as they certainly have been with those on onshore wind. As she will know, planning at all levels is being devolved to local planning authorities, and it will then be for the Scottish Parliament to decide exactly what the appropriate planning process should be for onshore wind in Scotland.

[Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish) (Lab)]

Can we have some consistency from the Minister? Why does she support the imposition of fracking on communities against their will? Why can she not extend the same courtesy to those communities that she has extended to those affected by wind farms?