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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of public support for fracking.

The Department undertakes quarterly assessments on a range of subjects and topics as part of our Public Attitudes Tracker (PAT). Questions which explore the public’s perception and understanding of shale are included as part of this.

The latest report was published on 8 November 2018 using survey data collected between 19 - 30 September 2018. The report can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/beis-public-attitudes-tracker-wave-27.