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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment he has made of the level of (a) exploration and (b) drilling activity in the North Sea since January 2017.

The Government created the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) to regulate, influence and promote the UK oil and gas industry in order to maximise the economic recovery of the UK’s oil and gas resources.

The OGA publishes data on levels of exploration and other drilling in the UK North Sea. These can be found online at: https://www.ogauthority.co.uk/data-centre/data-downloads-and-publications/well-data/