Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if she will make a comparative assessment of the carbon footprint of (a) domestically-produced gas and (b) imported liquified natural gas.

Recent research from the North Sea Transition Authority shows that the production of gas extracted from the UK Continental Shelf has an average emission intensity of 21 kilogrammes of CO2 kgCO2e/boe, whereas imported Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) has a significantly higher average production and transportation intensity of 79 kgCO2e/boe.

This means that domestically produced gas releases around four times less carbon dioxide during the process of extraction, treatment and transportation, when compared to imported liquefied natural gas.