Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department plans to create a coordination group to facilitate the development of pathfinder projects for multi-purpose interconnectors.

The Offshore Transmission Network Review is working with multi-purpose interconnectors, offshore wind developers and the onshore transmission owner to facilitate the development of pathfinder projects, including proactively exploring opportunities to coordinate with others in the same region where possible.