The Government Response To Parliamentary Scrutiny Of The Revised Draft National Policy Statements For Energy Infrastructure

Download or read book The Government response to parliamentary scrutiny of the revised draft national policy statements for energy infrastructure written by Great Britain: Department of Energy and Climate Change and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-06-23 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 2009 the previous Government published six draft energy NPSs and associated documents for public consultation and Parliamentary scrutiny. In the House of Commons, the previous Energy and Climate Change (ECC) Select Committee scrutinised the draft energy NPSs and published a report (HC 231-I, session 2009-10, ISBN 9780215545237) of itsfindings. This included a recommendation that the draft NPSs should be subject to a debate in the main chamber of the House of Commons. This debate took place on 1st December 2010 on the basis of revised draft NPSs and a number of issues were raised there. This is the Government response to the 18 recommendations made by the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee to the revised NPSs.