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

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if she will lay before Parliament (a) the Committee on Climate Change report on the compatibility of UK onshore petroleum with meeting UK carbon budgets and (b) her response to that report before 14 June 2016.

The Department has received the Committee on Climate Change report. We are considering the report and will lay it before Parliament with our response in due course.