Oral Answers to Questions

Jessica Morden Excerpts

Thursday 16th January 2014 Commons Chamber

[Jessica Morden (Newport East) (Lab)]

T7. In the light of the Government’s announcements this week on shale gas, will the Minister give an update on his Department’s current plans for harnessing energy from the Severn estuary?

[Michael Fallon]

As I said earlier in response to my hon. Friend the Member for Truro and Falmouth (Sarah Newton), we published the final strike prices for both tidal and wave in December. We continue to take an interest in that particular project, which, of course, has to be commercially sustainable. I am sure that those behind the project are aware of what they have to do to bring it to the market.