Question follow-through · 49941
Coal: Mining
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make it his policy to support future applications for sustainable mining of coal.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Tabled
- 2 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 May 2025
- Answer
- 13 May 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make it his policy to support future applications for sustainable mining of coal.
7 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 May 2025
Answer published
The Government has committed to not granting new coal licences and has set out its policy position in a written statement on 14th November 2024 https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2024-11-14/hcws215.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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