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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how the licence extension granted for PL080 at Kirby in North Yorkshire was agreed and documented in 2014.

After approving a Field Development Plan Addendum in 2013, the Department of Energy and Climate Change consented to an extension to the PL080 licence for a period of 10 years allowing further recovery of petroleum from the licensed area.

Once the Deed of Variation implementing the extension was executed on 13 October 2013, the licence term dates were updated on the DECC website. This and other petroleum licensing information is now held on the website of the Oil and Gas Authority (www.ogauthority.co.uk).