Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Andrea Leadsom and Kate Hollern

Thursday 11th February 2016 Commons Chamber

[Andrea Leadsom]

As the hon. Gentleman will be aware, onshore wind has already been deployed to a great extent. As I have just said, it is already at the level of deployment we expected to see by 2020, so it is right that local communities’ views should be taken into account. With hydraulic fracturing, however, absolutely no shale gas extraction is taking place anywhere in the UK at the moment. There are no wells, and there is not even any exploration, yet it is vital to the UK’s energy interests that we explore this home-grown energy, which could be vital for jobs, growth and of course energy security.

[Kate Hollern (Blackburn) (Lab)]

3. What changes she plans to make to the structure of capacity market auctions before the next auction round.