Planning Act 2008
Energy and Climate Change
Written answers and statements, 3 November 2009
Jacqui Lait (Beckenham, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change which draft national policy statements under the Planning Act 2008 for which his Department is responsible he expects to publish before March 2010.
David Kidney (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Energy and Climate Change; Stafford, Labour)
holding answer
The Department intends to publish a suite of six energy national policy statements for consultation during autumn 2009.
This will include an overarching national policy statement for energy and five technology-specific national policy statements on: fossil fuel electricity generation; renewable energy generation; gas supply infrastructure and gas and oil pipelines; electricity networks and nuclear power generation.