Permitted Development and Shale Gas Exploration

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 3:25 pm on 28 March 2019.

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Photo of David Drew David Drew Shadow Minister (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) 3:25, 28 March 2019

I am pleased that the hon. Lady has secured this debate and congratulate her on the way she has started it. Does she agree that the context of the Government encouraging fracking is bad enough, but the way in which they have treated renewables, by making them so difficult through the planning process and completely cutting away the subsidy regime, means that renewables are now at a standstill? It is a disgrace.