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Bill · started in the Lords

Petroleum (Amendment) Bill [HL]

A Bill to prohibit licensing to search and bore for petroleum and onshore hydraulic fracturing activities; to amend the principal objective for the Oil and Gas Authority to be to meet the carbon reduction target for 2050 under the Climate Change Act 2008; and to provide for the Oil and Gas Authority to produce strategies which include the phasing out of the extraction and use of petroleum and transitional planning towards renewable energies

In progress Current stage: 1st reading (Lords)

The story so farThe Petroleum (Amendment) Bill was introduced in the House of Lords on 24 March 2022 by Baroness Sheehan (Liberal Democrat). It is now at first reading in the House of Lords. First reading is the formal introduction, with no debate; the substantive debate comes at second reading.

Progress through Parliament

  1. 1st reading Lords 24 Mar 2022

Source: the official bill page. Last updated 28 Apr 2022.