We find it immensely frustrating that the Government chose to act in a way which appeared to acquiesce to our requests for additional time to consider its draft National Policy Statements on Energy but only after we had compressed our schedule and carried out two oral evidence sessions on the same day. Obviously, had we been afforded the courtesy of notification of the arrangements in advance, we could, and would, have waited until the end of the public consultation period before commencing u...

We find it immensely frustrating that the Government chose to act in a way which appeared to acquiesce to our requests for additional time to consider its draft National Policy Statements on Energy but only after we had compressed our schedule and carried out two oral evidence sessions on the same day. Obviously, had we been afforded the courtesy of notification of the arrangements in advance, we could, and would, have waited until the end of the public consultation period before commencing using the information arising from that process to inform our oral evidence sessions and create the added value, by test and challenge, that the process w Type: conclusion | Number: 1 | Response status: not_addressed Government response: Government notes the concerns of the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee2 that insufficient time was given to them to undertake parliamentary scrutiny of these three draft energy National Policy Statements (NPSs). The timeline for this NPS review has been to en