Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many meetings her Department held with other departments on the cross-departmental consequences of an energy supply shortage in the last 12 months; and whether there is a fixed schedule for future such meetings.

Cabinet Office Ministers and officials regularly engage with other government departments on a wide range of cross-cutting resilience matters, including the impacts of any potential energy supply shortages.

Cross-departmental engagement occurs on a continuous basis, and there have been a large number of ministerial and official meetings held on broader resilience over the past 12 months, at which this topic can arise. To provide more detailed information would exceed the threshold and incur a disproportionate cost to the Cabinet Office.