Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether her Department is taking steps to ensure that any new oil and gas licences will be compatible with the Government's 2050 net zero target.

The Government has strict measures in place to ensure emissions from oil and gas production are accounted for in legally binding domestic carbon budgets; new oil and gas licences will not increase emissions above carbon budgets.

As a net importer of oil and gas and a rapidly declining producer, new oil and gas licences simply reduce the fall in the UK supply; they do not increase it above current levels.