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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Oral Answer of the Prime Minister to the hon. Member for Edinburgh East of 25 October 2017, what discussions he has had with the Prime Minister on the proposals to be brought to Parliament on fracking.

My Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has regular discussions with my Rt Hon Friend the Prime Minister around matters of environment policy.