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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether Cuadrilla has complied with the 18 hour waiting time after every recorded earthquake on the Preston New Road site.

The Oil and Gas Authority have confirmed that Cuadrilla have paused hydraulic fracturing operations for a minimum of 18 hours following a seismic event of 0.5 magnitude or above, as is required in the strict controls in the Hydraulic Fracture Plan.