Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to ensure that amendments to the Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response and Cooperation Convention) Regulations 1998 do not increase the risk of oil pollution from oil and gas platforms.

Any future amendments to the Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response and Cooperation Convention) Regulations 1998 in relation to oil and gas platforms would, as a minimum, maintain existing environmental protection standards provided for by the current regime.