Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department have made of the potential impact of the European Commission's announcement on the 7 June 2023 of a coordinated withdrawal by EU member states from the Energy Charter Treaty on the Government's policy on withdrawing from the Energy Charter Treaty.

On 7 July 2023 the European Commission announced its proposal for a coordinated EU withdrawal. The European Union does not have a bloc-wide position regarding the ECT. The UK is carefully monitoring developments of all Contracting Parties, including the EU, as it assesses the situation surrounding modernisation.