Question follow-through · 23195
Natural Gas: Storage
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to help increase storage levels of gas.
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- Answering body
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Tabled
- 10 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 20 Jan 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to help increase storage levels of gas.
14 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Jan 2025
Answer published
National Gas has confirmed on 10 January that “the overall picture across Great Britain’s eight main gas storage sites remains healthy - with average levels at just over 60% across the board." We have diverse sources of gas supply, including from the...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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