Question follow-through · 63639
Offshore Industry: North Sea
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of Scope 3 emissions reporting on oil and gas exploration in the North Sea.
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- Answering body
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Tabled
- 30 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 8 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
30 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of Scope 3 emissions reporting on oil and gas exploration in the North Sea.
2 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jul 2025
Answer published
Guidance on how Scope 3 emissions should be assessed as part of the Environmental Impact Assessment process has now been published. This provides clarity for the North Sea oil and gas industry. Developers can now resume the submission of environmental sta...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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