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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps the Government plans to take to bring forward new gas generation in the event that no new combined cycle gas turbine capacity clears the capacity market auction in December 2016.

In the recent capacity market auction, around 1.5GW of new gas plant cleared, including a new combined cycle gas turbine, a new open cycle gas turbine, and a variety of new smaller scale, flexible gas resources.