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 6 April 2018 to Question 134558 on Fracking: Employment, if he will update the estimate in the April 2014 Ernst and Young report Getting Ready for UK Shale Gas on the number of jobs that fracking could result in at peak; and if he will make a statement.
The Government will continue to monitor progress of the shale gas industry and will revise its estimates as appropriate as the industry develops.