Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Oral Answer of 6 November 2014, Official Report, column 951, on fracking, if he will make it his policy to ensure that all proposed sites have an environmental impact assessment.

All projects which are deemed to have significant effects on the environment will require an Environmental Impact Assessment.

The industry has committed to perform Environmental Impact Assessments for all proposals involving hydraulic fracturing.