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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Oil and Gas Authority has visited the Preston New Road shale gas site since the four seismic events of greater than the red light 0.5ML threshold that occurred between 26 October 2018 and 4 November 2018.

Officials from the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) have visited the Preston New Road site since the red traffic light events. The OGA is closely monitoring operations at the site and is continuing to scrutinise data from the seismic monitoring array.