Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make it his policy to ensure that potential changes to the retained EU law The Offshore Petroleum Activities (Conservation of Habitats) Regulations 2001 (as amended) (a) preserve safeguards relating to the impacts from oil and gas activities in protected sites and (b) support conservation objectives.

Any future changes to the Offshore Petroleum Activities (Conservation of Habitats) Regulations 2001 (as amended) would seek to, as a minimum, maintain existing standards of environmental protection.