Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether Ministers in his Department have had (a) in-person discussions and (b) e-mail correspondence with relevant stakeholders on the AQUIND Interconnector Project.

It would be inappropriate to comment on any potential input which might be submitted to an ongoing planning re-determination process. There have been no discussions or email correspondence between MOD Ministers and AQUIND stakeholders. Discussions between the Secretary of State and his French counterpart cover a variety of topics and it would not be appropriate to comment on the detail of those discussions.