The Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change (Andrea Leadsom)

I wish to inform the House that on 1 April 2015, while Parliament was prorogued, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) established the United Kingdom’s new arm’s-length oil and gas regulator, the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA). Founding the OGA as an Executive agency of DECC represents a critical step in implementing the recommendations contained in Sir Ian Wood’s 2014 report (Wood review) into maximising economic recovery from the United Kingdom’s continental shelf (UKCS).

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