Nicholas Dakin
Main Page: Nicholas Dakin (Labour - Scunthorpe)11. What recent assessment he has made of the UK’s energy security.
17. What recent assessment he has made of the UK’s energy security.
18. What recent assessment he has made of the UK’s energy security.
I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s question. We are giving huge support. We published the first ever interconnection strategy in December and we are working with Ofgem, which recently published a new registry framework. We hope that three interconnector projects will get to financial close very shortly—the Eleclink through the channel tunnel, the Nemo Link project with Belgium and the NSN project with Norway—and we think that two other projects could come forward with France. The question is really important as it involves the single European energy market, of which we are strong supporters. We are working tirelessly on that very point.