Written Question·Department for Energy Security and Net Zero·UIN 36856

Offshore Industry: Pollution

Tabled: 10 March 2025
Answered: 18 March 2025

Question

Pippa Heylings

Liberal DemocratSouth Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the oil spill map published by the Ocean Alliance Against Offshore Drilling on 19 February 2025, what steps he is taking to help tackle the cumulative impacts of chronic pol

Answer

Michael Shanks
The data presented in the oil spill map overstates the number of permit breaches associated with oil or chemicals discharged to sea as a number of these report duplicate discharges while some relate to administrative failures to comply with permit conditi...

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