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

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to reduce the UK’s dependence on non-domestic energy resources.

The crisis in Ukraine and the UK’s exposure to high global gas prices show the importance of the Government’s plan for a strong home-grown low-carbon economy to strengthen energy security into the future.

The Government plans to reduce reliance on fossil fuels as the engine of the UK economy and make the transition to low carbon energy. This includes ambitious plans to support the deployment of low carbon and renewable technologies such as offshore wind, nuclear and hydrogen, which will contribute to decarbonising the UK’s power, heat and transport sectors.

My Rt. Hon. Friend the Prime Minister has made clear his intention to publish an Energy Security Strategy, setting out how the UK will make the transition to a home-grown clean energy future and end reliance on Russian oil.