Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish the final version of her Department's report, Shale Gas: Rural Economy Impacts.

The full version of the draft rural economy impacts paper was released on 1 July and is available on https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/draft-shale-gas-rural-economy-impacts-paper. The draft paper was intended as a rapid review of existing literature; it is not analytically robust. Work on this paper was discontinued and we have no plans to update it.