Oral Answers to Questions

Louise Haigh Excerpts

Tuesday 16th October 2018 Commons Chamber

[The Minister for Energy and Clean Growth (Claire Perry)]

My hon. Friend has made a valuable point. We have high sustainability criteria, but we must ensure that biofuels are sourced sustainably. We have asked the Climate Change Committee for a bioenergy report, which it will provide shortly, and which will give us new advice on questions of land use and the long-term best use of resources.

[Louise Haigh (Sheffield, Heeley) (Lab)]

T2. Rather than listening to communities where shale gas applications have been made, the Government have continued to dismantle the hurdles over which fracking companies should be forced to jump. Will the Minister confirm that she is now genuinely considering weakening the controls on earthquakes in relation to fracking companies?

[Claire Perry]

I can absolutely confirm that I am not considering weakening the monitoring controls on seismicity.