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Lord Whitehead (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 28 April 2026

Debate

National Emergency Plan for Fuel

Contribution

The noble Lord will know that those two fields have exploration licences but do not yet have production licences. The general point about those fields, and indeed new fields, particularly in the UK, was made just recently by the director of the International Energy Agency, who said that those and other fields “would not change much for the UK’s energy security, nor would they change the price of oil and gas. They would not make any significant difference to this crisis”. Regarding the current crisis, it is right in general to continue to move away from reliance on volatile and possibly unstable sources of fossil fuel and develop the greater security that comes with renewable and low-carbon energy, which is what the Government are doing.

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