Fracking: Employment

(asked on 27th March 2018) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 23 March 2018 to Question 131951, whether his Department has recently reviewed the estimate for the number of jobs that fracking could result in at peak published in the report by Ernst and Young, part-funded by his Department, entitled Getting ready for UK shale gas, published in April 2014; and if she will make a statement.


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Claire Perry
This question was answered on 6th April 2018

The Department has not recently reviewed the estimate, as set out in the report by Ernst and Young, for the numbers of jobs that could be created by the UK shale gas industry.

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