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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent discussions he has had with the chairman of (a) the Oil and Gas Authority, (b) Gordon Birrell, executive vice-president of production at BP, (c) Zoe Yujnovich, upstream director at Shell, (d) Al Cook, executive vice-president at Equinor, (e) Sam Laidlaw, chairman of Neptune Energy and (f) Amjad Bseisu, chief executive of EnQuest, on the incompatibility of new oil and gas production with reaching net zero by 2050.

As is normal, the Government has had meetings with energy suppliers and stakeholders during a period of high global gas prices. While the Government is gradually driving down demand for fossil fuels, there will continue to be ongoing demand for oil and gas over the coming years as the UK transitions to Net Zero.