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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to prevent gas shortages.

Great Britain benefits from highly diverse and flexible sources of gas supply, including domestic production, pipelines from Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands, and liquefied natural gas terminals which can bring in gas from anywhere in the world.

Gas security in the UK is provided by ensuring that these diverse sources have volumes available sufficiently in excess of peak demand to cope with shocks, and system flexibility to respond quickly to those shocks.

Analysis shows GB supplies can meet gas demand even under severe weather conditions for an extended period of time.