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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what information his Department holds on what financial assessment National Grid has made of installing additional energy transmission capacity immediately adjacent to the current pylon route for the proposed new East Anglia GREEN project.

The developer responsible for the new East Anglia GREEN project, National Grid Electricity Transmission, considers a range of factors of the project, including cost, environmental and socioeconomic impacts, deliverability and system benefit.

Network regulation is a matter for Ofgem, as the independent energy regulator.